دانلود کتاب Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas

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Contents
Introduction
PART I: COMPARISONS
Chapter 1: Religions on the Move
Chapter 2: Baroque New Worlds: Ethnography and Demonology in the Reformation and Counter- Reformation
Early English Representations of Amerindian Religions
Theodor de Bry’s Baroque New World
Demonology and Ethnography in Seventeenth-Century England and British America
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Martín de Murúa, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, and the Contested Uses of Saintly Models in Writing Colonial American History
Exemplarity and Historiography: Missionary Authors in New Spain
Exemplarity and Historiography: Martín de Murúa and Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
Exemplarity, Indoctrination, and Self-Mastery
PART II: CROSSINGS
Chapter 4: Transatlantic Passages: The Reformed Tradition and the Politics of Writing
The Church
Church, State, and Godly Rule
The Practical Divinity
Chapter 5: Dying for Christ: Martyrdom in New Spain
Background and Context for Martyrdom in the New World
Mexico as Scenario for Martyrdom
Missionary Expansion and Indigenous Disaffection
The Prospective Christians
Essential Martyrdom
Martyrdom Connections with the Far East: Saint Felipe de Jesús
PART III: MISSIONS
Chapter 6: Believing in Piety: Spiritual Transformation Across Cultures in Early New England
Faith and Culture
Reciprocity and Piety
Chapter 7: Return as a Religious Mission: The Voyage to Dahomey Made by the Brazilian Mulatto Catholic Priests Cipriano Pires Sardinha and Vicente Ferreira Pires (1796–98)
Religious and Economic Interests
The Priests Chosen to Accomplish the Mission
The Account of the Voyage to Dahomey
The Sermonist Issue
The Mission as Martyrdom
Return as a Mission
The Strategy of the King’s Conversion
The Religious Discourse
Chapter 8: Jesuit Missionary Work in the Imperial Frontier: Mapping the Amazon in Seventeenth-Century Quito
Down and Up the Amazon River: First Exploration Narratives
Cristóbal de Acuña: Chorography, Ethnography, and Spatial Differentiation
Concluding Remarks: Beyond Cristóbal de Acuña
PART IV: LEGACIES
Chapter 9: “Reader . . . Behold One Raised by God”: Religious Transformations in Cotton Mather’s Pietas in Patriam: The Life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt.
Rhetoric as Social Reassembling
Balancing the Rhetorics of Providence and Contract
Splitting the Rhetorics of Providence and Contract
Reassembling the Rhetoric of Providence
Reassembling the Social: The Rhetorics of Providence and Projecting
Chapter 10: Between Cicero and Augustine: Religion and Republicanism in the Americas and Beyond
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments