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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 February 2013
      07 February 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139023870
      9780521764582
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139023870
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.62kg, 330 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      History, Religion, Church History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    When European notions about angels and demons were exported to the New World, they underwent remarkable adaptations. Angels and demons came to form an integral part of the Spanish American cosmology, leading to the emergence of colonial urban and rural landscapes set within a strikingly theological framework. Belief in celestial and demonic spirits soon regulated and affected the daily lives of Spanish, Indigenous and Mestizo peoples, while missionary networks circulated these practices to create a widespread and generally accepted system of belief that flourished in seventeenth-century Baroque culture and spirituality. This study of angels and demons opens a particularly illuminating window onto intellectual and cultural developments in the centuries that followed the European encounter with America. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of religious studies, anthropology of religion, history of ideas, Latin American colonial history and church history.

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    'These well-written essays break new ground in Latin American studies; Angels, Demons and the New World will be of interest to scholars and students of Latin American colonial history, religious studies, anthropology of religion, and church history.'

    Source: The Catholic Historical Review

    'A rich and nuanced account.'

    Source: The Times Literary Supplement

    '… a major contribution to comparative religion …'

    Norman E. Whitten, Jr Source: Bulletin of Latin American Research

    'This is a major addition to the scholarship of diabolism and the less often addressed matters of angelology as well as an important area of connection between Europeans and the New World.'

    Leonard R. N. Ashley Source: Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance

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