Local religion in colonial Mexico
By: [edited by] Martin Austin Nesvig.
Contributors: Nesvig, Martin Austin, 1968-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Mexico -- History.; Christianity and culture -- Mexico -- History.; Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The concept of popular religion / Carlos M.N. Eire; title: Icons of devotion: the appropriation and use of saints in New Spain / Antonio Rubial García; title: The "Indian question" and the case of Tlatelolco / Martin Austin Nesvig; title: Between Nativitas and Mexico City : an eighteenth-century pastor's local religion / William B. Taylor; title: Autonomy, honor, and the ancestors: native local religion in seventeenth-century Oaxaca / David Tavárez; title: Carriers of saints : traveling alms collectors and Nahua gender roles / Edward W. Osowski; title: Confraternities and community : the decline of the communal quest for salvation in eighteenth-century Mexico City / Brian Larkin; title: Routes to respectability : confraternities and men of African descent in New Spain / Nicole von Germeten; title: Voices from a living hell : slavery, death, and salvation in a Mexican obraje / Javier Villa-Flores; title: Catholicisms / William Christian, Jr.