TEMPLES INTO CHURCHES

All the native religions in North and South America share a belief in the bond between human beings and nature—potentially a quite different concept from the view of man as the culmination of Creation. Then, too, many of the conquerors saw no contradiction between enslaving the Native Americans and bringing their souls into Paradise. But turning temples into churches was one thing and transforming native religions into Christianity quite another. This program shows how, though the emblems are Christian, the native people still pray to the old gods. (23 minutes)