Patrick Provost-Smith

Title

 Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity

Email

 patrick_provost-smith@harvard.edu

Telephone

 617-496-1213

Fax

 617-496-8459

Department

 

School

 Harvard Divinity School

Regions of Interest

  Andean Region

Countries of Interest

  Spain, Peru, Mexico, Bolivia

Areas of Expertise

  Religion, History

Mailing Address

 45 Francis Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138

Office Location

 Center for the Study of World Religions, 208

Research Interest

 Renaissance humanism in the 16th century and its intellectual impact on early modern missions in Peru and Mexico; history of political thought (â??just warâ?? argument and the conquest of the Americas and Philippines); Hispanic interpretations of indigeno

Web Page

 http://www.hds.harvard.edu/faculty/provostsmith.html

Courses

 HDS 2268 Christianity in Latin America: Colonization to Globalization (Other courses in early modern Christianity with components on Latin America)

Publications

 

“José de Acosta:  The Rhetorical Category of dicere aptius as Moral Discourse and Missionary Praxis in De procuranda indorum salute, liber secundus: De iure et iuiuria belli. (1589)”  Memorie Domen