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

Sacred Dialogues: Christianity and Native Religions in the Colonial Americas 1492-1700
Author: Nicholas Griffiths
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0244019630

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.

River Dialogues

River Dialogues
Author: Georgina Drew
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2017-04-11
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0816535108

"River Dialogues is an ethnographic engagement with social movements contesting hydroelectric development on River Ganges"--Provided by publisher.

Handel's Israelite Oratorio Libretti

Handel's Israelite Oratorio Libretti
Author: Deborah W. Rooke
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2012-02-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199279284

Combining the insights of present-day biblical studies with those of Handelian studies, this book examines the libretti of ten of Handel's Israelite oratorios and evaluates the relationship between each libretto and the biblical story on which it is based.

The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena

The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena
Author: St. Catherine of Siena
Publisher: TAN Books
Total Pages: 377
Release: 1991-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0895559692

St. Catherine of Siena's Dialogue describes the entire spiritual life through a series of conversations between God and the soul, represented by Catherine herself. Readers of The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena, will find her revelations from God as informative - and formative - as those who recognized her sanctity during her life. The universally applicable yet intimately personal messages she received from God are as much for us as they were for Catherine. We can read God's communications to his beloved daughter with detached awe or we can receive His messages to us through her writings. Do you long for certainty that Divine Providence exists in the midst of our chaotic world? Does your prayer seem too dry, or too routine? Have you sought guidance for the challenges of your life from unhelpful people or things? Or has pride kept you from humble obedience to the Church? If so, The Dialogue will provide consolation, encouragement, and hope.