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.

Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Sounds of Worship
2. A Language of Imitation
3. A Scene of New Ideas
4. "Poor Indians" and the "Poor in Spirit"
5. Martyrs, Healers, and Statesmen
6. Encountering Death
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Richard W. Pointer is Professor of History and Fletcher Jones Chair in Social Science at Westmont College. He is author of Protestant Pluralism and the New York Experience: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Religious Diversity (IUP, 1988).