Conflict and Conversion in Sixteenth Century Central Mexico

The Augustinian War on and Beyond the Chichimeca Frontier
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-23245-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigenous Response

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.

Zielgruppe

Readers will include specialist in Latin American history, global history, ethnohistory, religious history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Robert H

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöser Fundamentalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor’s Preface
List of Tables, Figures and Map
Preface: Genesis of a Question and Interpretation
Acknowledgement

1. Introduction

2. Setting the Stage: Native Peoples and Augustinian Missions in Central Mexico and Beyond the Chichimeca Frontier

3. The War against Satan and Sin: The Open Chapel Murals of San Nicolás Tolentino and Santa María Xoxoteco

4. The Holy War against the Chichimecas: The Ixmiquilpan Church Mural Series

5. Beyond the Chichimeca Frontier: Augustinian Evangelization of the Sierra Gorda, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

6. Conclusion

Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert H. Jackson, Ph.D. (1988) University of California, Berkeley, is Professor of International Relations and Latin American Studies at Alliant International University, Mexico City, and Program Director of the Alliant School of Management. He has authored, co-authored, edited, and co-edited 11 books and more than 60 journal articles.