1600-1763 (Temporal Keyword)

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The Material Culture of Folk Religion in French North America, 1600-1763 (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nina Schreiner.

By law, permanent residents of French settlements were Catholic. Systematic Catholicizing of French North America was nominally successful, but lay religion retained unorthodox elements, including belief in powerful supernatural beings and the effectiveness of magic in daily life. This study briefly surveys folklore and ethnohistory from New France and Louisiana to shed light on such folk religious beliefs and practices, then moves to consideration of diverse forms of material culture associated...