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. (2008)

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