The spiritual conversion of the Americas / edited by James Muldoon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : seeking spiritual gold in the Americas / James Muldoon -- Making the land holy : the mission frontier in early medieval Europe and colonial Mexico / Daniel T. Reff -- Conversion practices on the new Mexico frontier / Barbara de Marco -- Two kinds of conversion ("medieval" and "modern") among the Hurons of New France / Peter Goddard -- Conversion in theory and practice : John Eliot's mission to the Indians / Annie Parker -- Lutherans meet the Indians : a seventeenth-century conversion debate / Dennis C. Landis -- Dutch Calvinism and Native Americans : a comparative study of the motivations for Protestant conversion among the Tupís in northeastern Brazil (1630-1654) and the Mohawks in central New York (1690-1710) / Mark Meuwese -- "None of these wandering nations has ever been reduced to the faith" : missions and mobility on the Spanish-American frontier / Amy Turner Bushnell -- Confessing the Indians : guilt discourse and acculturation in early Spanish America / Jaime Valenzuela Márquez -- Conversion in Portuguese America / Isabel dos Guimarães Sá -- Making papists of Puritans : accounting for new English conversions in New France / Evan Haefeli -- Gold for glasse : the trope of trade in English missionary writings / Laura M. Stevens.

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