Religion in new Spain
By: edited by Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole.
Contributors: Schroeder, Susan.; Poole, Stafford.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albuquerque, NM
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780826339782
Subjects: New Spain -- Religion.; New Spain -- Religious life and customs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Encounters, accommodation, and outright idolatry / Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole; title: The people of two hearts and the one God from castile : ambivalent responses to Christianity in early colonial Oaxaca / Kevin Terraciano; title: Tying the knot : Nahua nuptials in colonial central Mexico / Lisa Sousa; title: Communal defiance, divided allegiances : Zapotec responses to idolatry extirpation campaigns in Oaxaca / David Tavárez; title: Native sexuality and Christian morality; title: Language of body and body as language : religious thought and cultural syncretism / Sonya Lipsett-Rivera; title: Secrets behind the screen : solicitantes in the colonial diocese of Yucatan and the Yucateca Maya, 1570-1785 / John Chuchiak; title: Believing in miracles; title: "Our Lord entered his body" : miraculous healing and children's bodies in new Spain / Martha Few; title: Canonizing a cult : a wonder-working guadalupe in the seventeenth century / Jeanette Favrot Peterson; title: Taking the veil and new realities; title: Female visionaries and spirituality / Asunción Lavrin; title: The indigenous nuns of Corpus Christi : race and spirituality / Mónica Díaz; title: Guardian of the Christian society : the holy office of the inquisition-racism, judaizing, and gambling; title: Interrogating blood lines : "purity of blood," the inquisition, and casta categories / María Elena Martínez; title: Between toleration and persecution : the relationship of the inquisition and Crypto-Jews on the northern frontier / Stanley M. Hordes; title: On divine persecution : blasphemy and gambling / Javier Villa-Flores; title: Music and martyrdom on the northern frontier; title: Opus dei-"the work of God" : Franciscan and Jesuit music / Kristin Dutcher Mann; title: Martyrs and idols : performing ritual warfare on early missionary frontiers in the northwest / Maureen Ahern; title: Tangential Christianity on other frontiers : business and politics as usual; title: Priests and the provincial social order in Tlaxcala, 1650-1792 / James D. Riley; title: Apostles of reform : local elites and patronato real in late colonial Chiapas / Michael A. Polushin.