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A Violent Evangelism: The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas

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Availability:In StockContributor:Luis N. RiveraPublish date:1992-09-01Pages:376
Language:EnglishPublisher:Westminster John Knox PressISBN-13:9780664253677ISBN-10:664253679UPC:9780664253677Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, North American, Latin AmericaBook Topic:South AmericaSize:9.02 x 5.98 x 0.99 inchesWeight:1.3316Product ID:SCZ5BTKKNK

In this thought-provoking book, Luis Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and land in the New World and to validate the conversion, peaceful or forced, of the natives. He recaptures the sixteenth-century political debates--where priests and theologians are both voices of dissent against the Spanish military conquest and fervent defenders of it. Rivera contrasts "discovery" and conquest and examines the tragic outcome: demographic collapse--from the islands Columbus first sighted to the Inca empire in Peru.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Westminster John Knox PressISBN-13:9780664253677ISBN-10:664253679UPC:9780664253677Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, North American, Latin AmericaBook Topic:South AmericaSize:9.02 x 5.98 x 0.99 inchesWeight:1.3316Product ID:SCZ5BTKKNK
Rivera, Luis N.: - Luis N. Rivera is Henry Winters Luce Professor Emeritus of Ecumenics and Mission at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

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