Sacred Dialogues: Christianity and Native Religions in the Colonial Americas 1492-1700

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Sacred Dialogues: Christianity and Native Religions in the Colonial Americas 1492-1700 is written by Nicholas Griffiths and published by Lulu.com. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0244019630 (ISBN 10) and 9780244019631 (ISBN 13).

A Spanish conquistador who posed as a sorcerer and cured native Americans as he trekked across an unknown wilderness; a French Jesuit who conjured rain clouds in order to impress his indigenous flock with the potency of Christian magic; a Puritan minister who healed a native chief in order to win him for God; a Mexican noble who was burned at the stake for resisting the gentle Franciscan friars; an Andean chief who was haunted by nightmares in which his native gods did battle with the Christian Father; a Huron magician who vied with French missionaries over spirits of the night in a shaking tent ceremony. These are a few of the individuals whose struggles are brought to life in the pages of this book. Their experiences, among others, reveal what happened when Christianity came into contact with Native American religions in three distinct regions of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century colonial America: Spanish, French and British.