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Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana Estudios coloniales latinoamericanos en el siglo XXI: Nuevos itinerarios
Los estudios críticos sobre literaturas y culturas coloniales que concurren en este volumen asumen el mundo hispano como piedra de toque para todo debate sobre la gestación de la modernidad. En consecuencia, según declara la compiladora, se ofrece “una contralectura a la exclusión de América Latina de la formación de la modernidad en la época colonial”. Al puntualizar el papel crucial que tuvo el imperio español en la emergencia del mundo moderno se reconoce también a los pueblos colonizados –indígenas, afrodescendientes y mestizos– como agentes activos en las resistencias y contrarresistencias que definieron las modernidades reales y virtuales que hoy se nos proyectan desde aquella múltiple experiencia histórica. ~ The critical studies on colonial literatures and cultures compiled in this volume view the Hispanic world as a touchstone for any debate on the gestation of modernity. Therefore, according to the compiler, it offers ‘a counter-reading on the exclusion of Latin America from the creation of modernity in the colonial era.’ By pointing out the crucial role that the Spanish empire played in the emergence of the modern world, those it colonized –indigenous, Afro-descendants and mixed-race– are also acknowledged as active agents in the resistance and counter-resistance that defined the real and virtual modernities that are projected to us today from that complex historical experience.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas
Christianity took root in the Americas during the early modern period when a historically unprecedented migration brought European clergy, religious seekers, and explorers to the New World. Protestant and Catholic settlers undertook the arduous journey for a variety of motivations. Some fled corrupt theocracies and sought to reclaim ancient principles and Christian ideals in a remote unsettled territory. Others intended to glorify their home nations and churches by bringing new lands and subjects under the rule of their kings. Many imagined the indigenous peoples they encountered as "savages" awaiting the salvific force of Christ. Whether by overtly challenging European religious authority and traditions or by adapting to unforeseen hardship and resistance, these envoys reshaped faith, liturgy, and ecclesiology and fundamentally transformed the practice and theology of Christianity. Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas explores the impact of colonial encounters in the Atlantic world on the history of Christianity. Essays from across disciplines examine religious history from a spatial perspective, tracing geographical movements and population dispersals as they were shaped by the millennial designs and evangelizing impulses of European empires. At the same time, religion provides a provocative lens through which to view patterns of social restriction, exclusion, and tension, as well as those of acculturation, accommodation, and resistance in a comparative colonial context. Through nuanced attention to the particularities of faith, especially Anglo-Protestant settlements in North America and the Ibero-Catholic missions in Latin America, Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas illuminates the complexity and variety of the colonial world as it transformed a range of Christian beliefs. Contributors: Ralph Bauer, David A. Boruchoff, Matt Cohen, Sir John Elliot, Carmen Fernández-Salvador, Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Sandra M. Gustafson, David D. Hall, Stephanie Kirk, Asunción Lavrin, Sarah Rivett, Teresa Toulouse.
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