Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions
Subtitle: That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629 (Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: March 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780806120317
Subjects: History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Indigenous peoples; Sociology; Native American; Native American Anthropology; Native American Religions; Social Science; History - General History; USA; General; Aztecs; Indians of Mexico; Medicine; Nahuatl language; Religion
First sentence: Religion played a major role in the conquest and colonization of Mexico (New Spain), but conversion of the natives was not a matter of simply imposing the tenets of Roman Catholicism while suppressing native beliefs.