Visualizing the Miraculous, Visualizing the Sacred - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Visualizing the Miraculous, Visualizing the Sacred write by Robert H. Jackson. This book was released on 2014-10-21. Visualizing the Miraculous, Visualizing the Sacred available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. French historian Robert Ricard postulated a quick and facile evangelization of the native populations of central Mexico. However, evidence shows that native peoples incorporated Catholicism into their religious beliefs on their own terms, and continued to make sacrifices to their traditional deities. In particular the deities of rain (Tlaloc and Dzahui) and the fertility of the soil (Xipe Totec) continued to be important following the conquest and the beginning of the so-called spiritual conquest. This study examines visual evidence of the persistence of traditional religious practices, including embedded pre-hispanic stones placed in churches and convents, and pre-hispanic iconography in what ostensibly were Christian murals.
Frontiers of Evangelization
Frontiers of Evangelization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Frontiers of Evangelization write by Robert H. Jackson. This book was released on 2017-07-21. Frontiers of Evangelization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Spanish crown wanted native peoples in its American territories to be evangelized and, to that end, facilitated the establishment of missions by various Catholic orders. Focusing on the Franciscan missions of the Sierra Gorda in Northern New Spain (Mexico) and the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos in what is now Bolivia, Frontiers of Evangelization takes a comparative approach to understanding the experiences of indigenous populations in missions on the frontiers of Spanish America. Marshaling a wealth of data from sacramental, military, and census records, Robert H. Jackson explores the many factors that influenced the stability of mission settlements, including the indigenous communities’ previous subsistence patterns and family structures, the evangelical techniques of the missionary orders, the social and political organization within the mission communities, and epidemiology in relation to population density and mobility. The two orders, Jackson’s research shows, organized and administered their missions very differently. The Franciscans took a heavy-handed approach and implemented disruptive social policies, while the Jesuits engaged in a comparatively “kinder and gentler” form of colonization. Yet the most critical factor to the missions’ success, Jackson finds, was the indigenous peoples’ existing demographic profile—in particular, their mobility. Nonsedentary populations, like the Pames and Jonaces of the Sierra Gorda, were more prone to demographic collapse once brought into the mission system, whereas sedentary groups, like the Guaraní of Chiquitos, experienced robust growth and greater resistance to disease and natural disaster. Drawing on more than three decades of scholarly work, this analysis of crucial archival material augments our understanding of the role of missions in colonization, and the fate of indigenous peoples in Spanish America.
Theater of a Thousand Wonders
Theater of a Thousand Wonders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theater of a Thousand Wonders write by William B. Taylor. This book was released on 2016-10-03. Theater of a Thousand Wonders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive historical study of the images and shrines of New Spain, rich in stories and patterns of change over time.
Communities on a Frontier in Conflict
Communities on a Frontier in Conflict - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Communities on a Frontier in Conflict write by Robert H. Jackson. This book was released on 2018-10-09. Communities on a Frontier in Conflict available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his historical satirical novel Candide, Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) presented a fanciful vision of the Jesuit missions established among the Guaraní in parts of what today are Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil. Some scholars have characterized the missions as having been a socialist utopia, or an independent republic located on the fringes of Spanish territory in South America. What was the reality? This study presents a detailed analysis of one of the Jesuit missions, Los Santos Mártires del Japón, and the story of the creation of mission communities on a frontier contested by Spain and Portugal during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It documents the historical realities of the Jesuit missions, their patterns of development, and the demographic consequences for the mission populations of military conflict.
The Public Rituals of Life, Death, and Resurrection in Tlayacapan, Morelos (Mexico)
The Public Rituals of Life, Death, and Resurrection in Tlayacapan, Morelos (Mexico) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Public Rituals of Life, Death, and Resurrection in Tlayacapan, Morelos (Mexico) write by Robert H. Jackson. This book was released on 2020-01-20. The Public Rituals of Life, Death, and Resurrection in Tlayacapan, Morelos (Mexico) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A process of social, cultural, and religious change occurred in central Mexico starting in the sixteenth century, following the Spanish conquest. Missionaries from different religious orders attempted to convert the indigenous peoples of central Mexico to Catholicism, and a part of this process involved the imposition of a new ritual cycle on the existing Mesoamerican cycle that governed agriculture and the cosmic order. This study describes the evolution and modern practice of the public ritual of life, death, and resurrection in Tlayacapan, Morelos. Tlayacapan is a community located in northern Morelos that has evolved from being a traditional community of Náhuas to a center of cultural tourism based on its architectural patrimony, artisan tradition, and, particularly, its public ritual. Carnival and the Day of the Dead continue to form a part of the traditional ritual cycle, but have also been used to attract tourism. This study discusses the modern practice of carnival, Holy Week and the Day of the Dead, and the historical origins of these public rituals.
