Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
A Guide to Aztec and Catholic Beliefs and Practices
- Authors:
- Cheryl Claassen, Appalachian State University, North Carolina
- Laura Ammon, Appalachian State University, North Carolina
- Date Published: May 2022
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316518380
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Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico explores the development of religion as transferred from Spain to Tenochtitlan. The religious world of both Aztecs and Spanish Catholics at time of encounter was organized through large and small scale community, family, and personal devotions. Devotion expressed through cults was the single most salient aspect in the transfer of Catholicism to New World people. This book highlights the role that ideas such as afterlife, apocalypticism, iconoclasm, Marianism, resistance, and saints played in the emergence of Mexican Catholicism in the sixteenth century. The larger Atlantic world context, as seen in the regions of Iberia, Anahuac, and 'New Spain', or central Mexico from Zacatecas to Oaxaca, is explored in detail. Beginning with an extensive historical essay to contextualize the pre-contact period, the bulk of this volume contains 118 separate keywords each with three comparative essays examining Aztec and Catholic religious practices before and after contact.
Read more- Provides context and history of the development of Aztec religion
- Connects theological developments concretely with historical events
- Provides examples of what the various Christian mendicant orders were doing and why
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'… a wonderful encyclopedia with an introductory study about religion in New Spain during the first century of colonization. … an extremely useful resource for scholars and students of Mexico during the colonial period and beyond. Both scholars and students will find themselves frequently looking at this work for reference as an accessible starting point in what is the complicated and controversial topic of religion in the first century of colonization in Mexico.' Peter C. B. Sorensen, Hispanic American Historical Review
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- Date Published: May 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316518380
- length: 414 pages
- dimensions: 260 x 190 x 23 mm
- weight: 1.02kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
I. Migrants, Mendicants and Mary: Anahuac to New Spain
II. Keywords
Appendix I. Aztec Feast Cycle
Appendix II. Europeans, Aztecs, and New Spaniards
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