Native Christians: Modes and Effects of Christianity among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

by Aparecida Vilaça

Native Christians reflects on the modes and effects of Christianity among indigenous peoples of the Americas drawing on comparative analysis of ethnographic and historical cases. Christianity in this region has been part of the process of conquest and domination, through the association usually made between civilizing and converting. While Catholic missions have emphasized the 'civilizing' process, teaching the Indians the skills which they were expected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032243414
• ISBN13: 9781032243412
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 266 Pages