Spiritual encounters : interactions between Christianity and native religions in colonial America PDF
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SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTERS Interactions between Christianity and native religions in colonial America This page intentionally left blank SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTERS Interactions between Christianity and native religions in colonial America Edited by Nicholas Griffiths and Fernando Cervantes THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS Copyright © University of Birmingham Press 1999 While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in the University of Birmingham Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher. First published in the United Kingdom by The University of Binningham Press, Edgbaston, Bimiingham, BI5 2TT, UK. First published in the United States by the University of Nebraska Press. All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN 0-902459-01-6 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Printed in Great Britain by Alden Press Limited In memory of Bob Scribner This page intentionally left blank Contents Notes on contiibutors ix Introduction 1 Nicholas Giifliths \ Spreading the Word: missionaries, conversion 43 and circulation in the northeast David Murray 2 'The kindness of the blessed Virgin': faith, 65 succour, and the cult of Mary among Christian Hurons and Iroquois in seventeenth-century New France William B. Hart 3 'Here is another marvel': Marian miracle 91 narratives in a Nahuatl manuscript Louise M. Burkhart 4 Cultural boundaries between adaptation and defiance: 116 the mission communities of northwestern New Spain Cynthia Radding 5 'Telling lives': confessional autobiography 136 and the reconstruction of the Nahua self J. Jorge Klor de Alva 6 Contesting the power to heal: angels, demons 163 and plants in colonial Mexico Osvaldo F. Pardo 7 Andean curanderos and their repressers: 185 the persecution of native healing in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Peru Nicholas Griffiths 8 El callejón de la soledad: vectors of cultural 198 hybridity in seventeenth-century Lima Alejandra B. Osorio 9 Repression and cultural change: 230 the 'Extirpation of Idolatry' in colonial Peru Ins Gareis vu 10 'Chicha in the chalice': spiritual conflict 255 in Spanish American mission culture Lance Grahn Epilogue: the middle ground 276 Fernando Cervantes Index 286 VUl Notes on contributors LOUISE BURKHART is an Associate Professor in the Depart- ments of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Stud- ies, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA. Her publications include The Slippery Earth: Nahua-Christian Moral Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (1989), Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (1996), and the forthcoming Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Ear- ly Colonial Nahuatl literature. FERNANDO CERVANTES is a Lecturer in Hispanic and Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of The Devil in the New World. The Impact of Diabolism in New Spain (1994). He has also published articles on the intellectual, cul- tural and religious history of Spain and Spanish America. IRIS GAREIS (MA, PhD, University of Munich, Germany) was awarded the 1997/98 Frobenius Prize, and is currently a Fellow of the Frobenius Institute in Frankfurt (Main), Germany. She also teaches in the department of anthropology, Institut fur Historische Ethnolo- gic, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt. LANCE GRAHN is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Marquette University, USA, and an Associate Member of the Center for Latin America at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. He lectures on the history of Latin America, early modern Spain and the Caribbean, and his publications include The Political Economy of Smuggling: Regional Informal Econo- mies in Early Bourbon Colombia (1997) and La crisis centroa- mericana: un enfoque cristiano (1991). NICHOLAS GRIFFITHS is a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of The Cross and the Serpent: Religious Repression and Resurgence in Colo- nial Peru (1996). He has also published several articles on the IX
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