Conversion: Old Worlds and New

Abstract

Conversion and compromise in the early 15th century, Flint and Van Engen "To the point of shedding your blood" - the Bible, communities of faith, and martyrs' resistance to conversion in the Reformation era, Gregory translating Christianity - counter-Reformation Europe and the Catholic mission in China, 1580-1780, Po-Chia Hsia twisting a pagan tongue - Portuguese and Tamil in 16th-century Jesuit translations, Zupanov converting the ancestors - indirect rule, settlement consolidstion, and the struggle over burial in colonial Peru, 1532-1614, Gose conversion and identity - Iroquois Christianity in 17th century New France, Greer object lessons - fetishism and the hierarchies of race and religion, Murray "To see inside of an Indian" - missionaries and Dakotas in the Minnnesota borderlands, Isenberg tickets, concerts and school fees - money and New Christian communities in colonial Zimbabwe, Summers literacy in the eye of India's conversion story, Viswanathan.