Manufacturing Otherness : Missions and Indigenous Cultures in Latin America
ISBN: 9781443855907
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Religion;

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 cultureOCOs values and institutions on the vanquis..."


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