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Conflict and conversion in sixteenth century central Mexico : the Augustinian war on and beyond the Chichimeca frontier /
In the sixteenth century Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian missionaries attempted to convert the Native populations of central Mexico. The Native peoples generally viewed the new religion in terms very different from that of the missionaries. As conflict broke out after 1550 as Spaniards invade...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2013.
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| Colección: | European expansion and indigenous response ;
12. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the sixteenth century Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian missionaries attempted to convert the Native populations of central Mexico. The Native peoples generally viewed the new religion in terms very different from that of the missionaries. As conflict broke out after 1550 as Spaniards invaded the Chichimeca frontier (the frontier between sedentary and nomadic Natives), the missionaries faced new challenges on both sides of the frontier. Some sedentary Natives resisted evangelization, and the missionaries saw themselves in a war against Satan and his minions. The Augustinians assumed a pivotal role in the evangelization campaign on both sides of the Chichimeca frontier, and employed different methods in the effort to convince the Natives to embrace the new faith and to defeat Satan's designs. They used graphic visual aids and the threat of an eternity of suffering in hell to bring recalcitrant Natives, such as the Otomi of the Mezquital Valley, into the fold. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-245), and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004251212 9004251219 9004232451 9789004232457 |