World Christianity and Indigenous Experience

David Lindenfeld is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, Louisiana State University. He has been researching cross-cultural religious interactions worldwide for nearly two decades and is co-editor, with Miles Richardson, of Beyond Conversion and Syncretism: Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800-2000 (2011). Lindenfeld is active member of the World History Association and the Yale-Edinburgh Group on Missionary Christianity.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Colonial Latin America: the Nahua (Aztecs) and their neighbors; 3. Native Norh America: the colonial Northeast, the Cherokee, and the Sioux; 4. Sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora; 5. The Middle East; 6. India; 7. East Asia: China, Japan, Korea; 8. The Pacific; Conclusion: reflections on concentrated and diffuse spirituality.

'David Lindenfeld emphasizes the Indigenous experience across a range of responses, from grateful acceptance to bitter resistance and all points in between. His nuanced account is neither simply imperial in tone nor crudely and damningly anti-imperial. Particularly impressive is the range of examples and illustrations, which include the Nahua (Aztecs), the Cherokee and Sioux in North America and multiple peoples across Africa, Asia, and Oceania.' Philip Jenkins, The Christian Century