World Christianity and Indigenous Experience: A Global History, 1500–2000 PDF
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World Christianity and Indigenous Experience Inthisbook,DavidLindenfeldproposesanewdimensiontothestudy ofworldhistory.Here,heexplorestheglobalexpansionofChristianity since 1500 from the perspectives of the indigenous people who were affected by it and helped change it, giving them active agency. Integratingthestudyofreligionintoworldhistory,hisvolumesurveys indigenous experience in colonial Latin America, Native North America,AfricaandtheAfricandiaspora,theMiddleEast,India,East Asia, and the Pacific. Lindenfeld demonstrates how religion is closely interwoven with political, economic, and social history. Wide-ranging in scope, and offering a synoptic perspective of our interconnected world,Lindenfeldcombinesin-depthanalysisofindividualregionswith comprehensive global coverage. He also provides a new vocabulary, withaspectrumrangingfromresistancetoacceptanceandcommitment toChristianity,thatarticulatestherangeandcomplexityoftheindigen- ous conversion experience. Lindenfeld’s cross-cultural reflections pro- vide a compelling alternative to the Western narrative of progressive development. DavidLindenfeldisProfessorEmeritusintheDepartmentofHistoryat LouisianaStateUniversity.Hehasbeenresearchingcross-culturalreli- gious interactions worldwide for nearly two decades and is coeditor, with Miles Richardson, of Beyond Conversion and Syncretism: Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800-2000 (2011). Lindenfeld is an active member of the World History AssociationandtheYale-EdinburghGrouponMissionaryChristianity. Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press World Christianity and Indigenous Experience – A Global History, 1500 2000 DAVID LINDENFELD LouisianaStateUniversity Published online by Cambridge University Press UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. 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LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData names:Lindenfeld,David,author. title:WorldChristianityandindigenousexperience:aglobalhistory,1500–2000/ DavidLindenfeld,author. description:Cambridge,UnitedKingdom;NewYork,NY,USA:CambridgeUniversity Press,2021.|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. identifiers:lccn2020042270(print)|lccn2020042271(ebook)| isbn9781108831567(hardback)|isbn9781108926874(paperback)| isbn9781108917643(epub) subjects:lcsh:Christianityandculture–History.|Conversion–Christianity–History.| Indigenouspeoples–Religion.|Agent(Philosophy) classification:lccbr115.c8l5552021(print)|lccbr115.c8(ebook)| ddc270.089–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020042270 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020042271 isbn978-1-108-83156-7Hardback isbn978-1-108-92687-4Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Published online by Cambridge University Press Contents List of Mapsand Illustrations page vi List of Tables vii Acknowledgments viii 1 Introduction 1 2 Colonial Latin America: TheNahuas (Aztecs) and TheirNeighbors 31 3 NativeNorthAmerica: The Colonial Northeast, the Cherokees, and theSioux 50 4 Sub-Saharan Africa and theDiaspora 91 5 The MiddleEast 142 6 India 178 7 East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea 210 8 The Pacific 257 Conclusion:ReflectionsonConcentratedandDiffuseSpirituality 293 Endnotes 305 GeneralBibliography 400 Index 407 v Published online by Cambridge University Press Maps and Illustrations 2.1 Mexicanindigenous languages page 39 2.2 Facade and open chapelof the Parish of the Purisima Concepcionin Otumba, Mexico State. 49 3.1 Native North America 90 4.1 The Atlantic slave trade 131 4.2 South African language groups 141 5.1 The Middle East 176 6.1 India 208 7.1 EastAsia 255 8.1 The Pacific 292 vi Published online by Cambridge University Press Tables 7.1 Estimated numbers ofmissionaries, Chinese clergy, and Christians inChina,1590–1820 page 223 9.1 The varieties of concentrated and diffuse spirituality 297 vii Published online by Cambridge University Press Acknowledgments This book was roughly sixteen years in the making, as it involved my shiftingofresearchfieldsfromEuropeantoworldhistory.Asabbaticalin 2003enabledmetoacceptavisitingfellowshipattheCenterforHistory, Society, andCulture attheUniversityofCalifornia,Davis.Amongthose at Davis who provided helpful advice and encouragement in getting me startedwereJohnR.HallandJacobOlupona. In2008,theGeorgetown University Department of Theology provided me the opportunity for organizing a workshop on indigenous encounters with missionary Christianity, together with my Louisiana State University colleague in anthropology, the late Miles Richardson. Georgetown faculty members Peter C. Phan and Joseph Murphy were instrumental in providing this venue, with the help of Anh Q. Tran, SJ. The other participants contrib- utedgreatlytomyunderstandingofthefield:SaurabhDube,C.Mathews Samson,ElizabethElbourne, Richard FoxYoung, SylviaFrey, andAnne Keary. This workshop led to the publication of a collection of essays, BeyondConversionandSyncretism(NewYork:BerghahnBooks,2011). A number of specialists in different cultural regions generously reviewed individual chapters and the articles that fed into them, provid- ing invaluable criticism and advice along the way. Foremost was my longtime colleague and friend, the late John Henderson, an East Asian scholarwithabroadcomparativeperspective,whoreviewedmostofthe manuscript. Others included Katherine Benton-Cohen, Gibril Cole, Philip J. Deloria, Carter Findley, Susan Schroeder, Peter Sutherland, Joel Tishken, Catherine Wessinger, Deanna Ferree Womack, William Worger, and Richard Fox Young. The manuscript reviewers for viii Published online by Cambridge University Press Acknowledgments ix Cambridge University Press provided many valuable suggestionsas well. Cartographer Mary Lee Eggart provided invaluable assistance with maps. For a book that deals centrally with religion, readers are entitled to know an author’s upbringing, affiliation, and biases. Raised in the reli- gionsofmyparents,namelyJudaismandQuakerism,Ifoundmywayto Unitarian Universalism in the 1970s and have remained there ever since thanks to a vibrant church community in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The themeandapproachofthisbookhavebeeninspiredbythatfaith,which finds human wisdom to be distributed among all cultures, with no one tradition havinga monopoly. Finally,Idedicatethisbooktomywife,JerriBecnel,whohaslovingly shared mewith this project formost of ourmarriage. Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press
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