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A Violent Evangelism: The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas Paperback - 1992

by Luis N. Rivera

In this thought-provoking book, 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 16-century political debates, contrasts "discovery" and conquest, and examines the tragic outcome: demographic collapse from the islands Columbus first sighted to the Inca empire in Peru.


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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.

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The 1992 celebration of the discovery of the Americas has reignited the old debate about the true meaning of that epoch-making event.

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  • Title A Violent Evangelism: The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas
  • Author Luis N. Rivera
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 376
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Westminster John Knox Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 1992-09-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780664253677 / 0664253679
  • Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.99 in (22.91 x 15.19 x 2.51 cm)
  • Reading level 1520
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Academic
  • Library of Congress subjects America - Discovery and exploration - Spanish, Indians - First contact with Europeans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92-24642
  • Dewey Decimal Code 970.016

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  • Library Journal, 12/01/1992, Page 0
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