Historicizing Christian Encounters with the Other

by John C. Hawley

Written from a cultural studies point of view, thirteen original essays analyse literary accounts of historically famous sites of conversion. Beginning with the Renaissance and extending to the present, authors under discussion include: Beaumont and Fletcher, Lope de Vega, Guamam Poma, Thomas Nashe, Daniel Defoe, Chateaubriand, Salvation Army pamphleteers, Chinese missionaries, Stephen Riggs, Samson Occom, Shusaku Endo, Mongo Beti, and Rigoberta Menchu...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349144231
• ISBN13: 9781349144235
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"