The Missionary Enterprise: Sources for the Christian Mission in the Atlantic World

April 15-16, 2000

Saturday, April 15

Session I

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Introduction

Richard W. Cogley, Southern Methodist University

“Seventeenth-Century New England Puritan Missions”

Jane T. Merritt, Old Dominion University

“The Moravian Mission Records: Translating the Lives of Pennsylvania Indians”

Session II

Thomas M. Cohen, Catholic University of America

“The Missionary Church in Brazil and Portugal, 1549-1758”

Louise M. Burkhart, University at Albany

“Franciscans and Nahuas in Mexico: Constructing and Inscribing an Indigenized Christianity”

Sunday, April 16

Session III

Peter A. Goddard, University of Guelph

“Relations of Piety and Persuasion: Interpreting the Jesuit Mission in Seventeenth-Century New France”

Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York University

“Through the Looking Glass: Missionary Encounters in Early America”