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Manufacturing otherness : missions and indigenous cultures in Latin America / Sergio Botta -- Towards a missionary theory of polytheism : the Franciscans in the face of the indigenous religions of New Spain / Sergio Botta -- The doctrine of Juli : foundation, development and the new identity in a shared space / Virginia Battisti Delia -- Jesuits and Indians in the borderlands (Vice-Royalty of Peru, 16th-18th centuries) / Nikolai Rakutz -- Making the indigenous speak : the Jesuit missionary Diego de Rosales in colonial Chile, 17th century / Rafael Gaune -- Negation and exaltation of the sertanistas of São Paulo in the Discourses of Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix, D. José Vaissette and Gaspar da Madre de Deus (1756-1774) / Michel Kobelinski -- Demonym cartography : native peoples and inquisition in Portuguese America (18th century)? / Maria Leônia Chaves de Resende -- Christian bodies, other bodies : processes of conversion and transformation in northeastern Amazonia / Vanessa Elisa Grotti -- Indian missionary or pastor? : reflections on a religious trajectory in the Amazon / Paride Bollettin -- The indigenist missionary council : a Brazilian experience between culture and faith / Marcos Pereira Rufino -- Religious conflicts, missionary action and indigenous activism in the western Brazilian Amazon / Sidnei Clemente Peres -- Seeing is believing? : vision and indigenous agency in the Anglican evangelisation of the Paraguayan Chaco / Alejandro Martínez -- The hidden heritage / Valéria Nely Cézar de Carvalho.

The discovery of the New World offered European civilisation the chance to generate a process of circulation of its own cultural values - the ""spiritual conquest""--That has no comparable precedents. The missionary orders played an important role during this ""Westernisation of the world, "" not only as key players in the spread of Christian values, but also as mediators between different worlds. Indeed, missionary practices imposed the dominating culture's values and institutions on the vanquis ...

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