Title: The pyramid under the cross : Franciscan discourses of evangelization and the Nahua Christian subject in sixteenth-century Mexico /
Authors: Díaz Balsera, Viviana, 1957-
Publisher: University of Arizona Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Franciscans Missions Mexico History; Christianity and other religions Mexico History.; Nahuas Missions Mexico History; Nahuas Religion; Indian Catholics Mexico History; Christianity and culture Mexico History; Christianity and other religions Mexico.; Mexico History Sources.
Abstract: "As the driving force in early European expansionism, Spain was concerned not only with the political and economic subordination of the New World native but also with the need to possess his soul. In this book, Viviana Diaz Balsera tells the story of this zealous, spiritual endeavor during its first one hundred years in Central Mexico and of how it transformed the European self and the indigenous other in ways sometimes unforeseen for both.".