Encounters of the Spirit
Native Americans and European Colonial Religion
Richard W. Pointer
Explores how Native Americans influenced the Christianity of their colonizers
Historians have long been aware that the encounter with Europeans affected all aspects of Native American life. But were Indians the only ones changed by these cross-cultural meetings? Might the newcomers' ways, including their religious beliefs and practices, have also been altered amid their myriad contacts with native peoples? In Encounters of the Spirit, Richard W. Pointer takes up these intriguing questions in an innovative study of the religious encounter between Indians and Euro-Americans in early America. Exploring a series of episodes across the three centuries of the colonial era and stretching from New Spain to New France and the English settlements, he finds that the flow of cultural influence was more often reciprocal than unidirectional.
Richard W. Pointer is Professor of History and Department Chair at Westmont College. He is author of Protestant Pluralism and the New York Experience: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Religious Diversity (IUP, 1988).
cloth: $39.95Series: Religion in North America
Publication date: 09/05/2007
Format: cloth
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34912-5
ISBN: 0-253-34912-5
The Atlantic World
1450-2000
Edited by Toyin Falola and Kevin D. Roberts
A comprehensive survey of the Atlantic region from the 15th century to the present
“The volume’s strength lies in its extensive scope and depth with several chapters that connect African, American, and European experiences with the wider context of the Atlantic world since the 15th century. . . . Comprehensive and thought-provoking.” —Olufemi Vaughan, SUNY Stony Brook
This ambitious work provides an overview of the Atlantic world, since the 15th century, by exploring the major themes that define the study of this region. Contact with Europeans in Africa and the Americas, the slave trade, gender and race in the early Atlantic world, independence movements in Africa, Caribbean nationalism, and gender and identity in the 20th century are just a few subjects discussed. Moving beyond the micro-histories of the scholarly monograph to connect the fruits of those researches with broader events and processes, this book, in the editors’ words, makes “a concerted effort to re-connect elites and non-elites, Old World and New, early modern and modern, and economics and culture.” It will be a point of embarkation for a new generation of students of the Atlantic world.
Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is co-editor of The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World (IUP, 2004).
Kevin D. Roberts is the founder and headmaster of Pope John Paul II Academy in Lafayette, Louisiana. A specialist in comparative slavery, he is author of African American Issues.
paper $24.95
Format: paper 416 pages, 7 figures, 1 maps, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21943-5
ISBN: 0-253-21943-4
$65.00
Format: cloth
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34970-5
ISBN: 0-253-34970-2
Publication date: 04/01/2008
Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora
Edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Toyin Falola
A breakthrough volume in the study of the material culture of the slave trade
This is the first book devoted to the archaeology of African life on both sides of the Atlantic and highlights the importance of historical archaeology in completing the historical records of the Atlantic world’s Africans. Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora presents a diverse, richly textured picture of Africans’ experiences during the era of the Atlantic slave trade and offers the most comprehensive explanation of how African lives became entangled with the creation of the modern world. Through interdisciplinary approaches to material culture, the dynamics of a comparative transatlantic archaeology is developed.
Akinwumi Ogundiran is Assistant Professor of History at Florida International University in Miami.
Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is co-editor (with Matt D. Childs) of The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World (IUP, 2004).
Series: Blacks in the DiasporaPublication date: 7/1/2007
Format: cloth 536 pages, 56 b&w photos, 18 maps, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
ISBN: 0-253-34919-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34919-4
$59.95
February 5, 2008