Christian Texts for Aztecs
Subtitle: Art and Liturgy In Colonial Mexico
Edition: 1st Edition edition
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: April 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780268033798
Subjects: Art of indigenous peoples; Religion & Beliefs; Religion; Religion - Church History; Mexico; Christianity - History - General; History - General; Latin America - Mexico; Religion / Roman Catholicism; Christianity - Literature & the Arts
Description: "Christian Texts for Aztecs: Art and Liturgy in Colonial Mexico is a cultural history of the missionary enterprise in sixteenth-century Mexico, seen primarily through the work of Catholic missionaries and the native populations, principally the Aztecs. Jaime Lara's new work addresses the inculturation of Catholic sacraments and sacramentals into an Aztec worldview in visual and material terms. He argues that the pre-Tridentine Catholic liturgy - similar in some ways to pre-Hispanic worship - effectively "conquered" the religious imagination of its new Mesoamerican practitioners, thus creating the basis for a uniquely Mexican Catholicism."--Jacket.