medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Fernando Cervantes, The Devil in the New World , Yale U Press, 1994,
studies how Christianity had difficulty in establishing itself in the
New World. Priests were horrified to find that their best native
adherents sometimes would use Christian altars for sacrifices to native
gods or to appease Satan. As I read the book, the problem was one of
psychological integration - the natives applied their prior religious
mindset, in which each god had both a positive and negative side, to the
new religion, which confusingly had two different entities for good and
evil. But you might wish to read the book and its evidence as
indicating some sort of double belief.
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