Why Have You Come Here?: The Jesuits and the First Evangelization of Native America

by NicholasP.Cushner (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $43.24

  Provides a comprehensive overview of the American missionary activities of the Jesuits. This book examines how the Jesuits behaved toward the indigenous population and analyzes the way in which native belief systems were replaced by Christianity. It also seeks to understand how the European-Indian encounter changed their even material culture.