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From ancient Rome to colonial Mexico : religious globalization in the context of empire /

"From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica. With the analysis of empire and globalization and a postcolonial perspective on religion, the book proposes the method of "analytical comparison" to conceptu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Wright, David, 1956- (Editor), Marco Simón, Francisco (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2023]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ritual mediation on the middle ground : Rome and New Spain compared / Greg Woolf
  • A long way to become Christian : Romans, Hungarians, and the Nahua / György Németh
  • Human sacrifice and the religion of the other : barbarians, pagans and Aztecs / Francisco Marco Simón
  • The Aztec sun and its Mesoamerican milieu from a classical Mediterranean perspective / Lorenzo Pérez Yarza
  • Donkeys and hares : the enemy warrior in the early European Chronicles of the Conquest / Paolo Taviani
  • Cultural persistence and appropriation in the Huamantla map / David Charles Wright-Carr
  • Comparison and the Franciscan construction of Mesoamerican polytheism through Augustine of Hippo's De Civitate Dei / Sergio Botta
  • Bernardino de Sahagún on Nahua astrology and divination : Greco-Roman traditions, Christian disapproval and ambiguity, and Mesoamerican practices / Guilhem Olivier
  • A version of the millennial Kingdom in the Portería of the Franciscan Convent in Cholula, México / María Celia Fontana Calvo
  • Smoking stones and smoking mirrors : the limits of antiquarianism in New Spain / Martin Devecka.