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Religion in sixteenth-century Mexico, a guide to Aztec and Catholic beliefs and practices, Cheryl Claassen, Appalachian State University, Laura Ammon, Appalachian State University

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Religion in sixteenth-century Mexico, a guide to Aztec and Catholic beliefs and practices, Cheryl Claassen, Appalachian State University, Laura Ammon, Appalachian State University

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Religion in sixteenth-century Mexico

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1304325457

Responsibility statement

Cheryl Claassen, Appalachian State University, Laura Ammon, Appalachian State University

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

a guide to Aztec and Catholic beliefs and practices

Summary

Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico explores the development of religion as transferred from Spain to Tenochtitlan. The religious world of both Aztecs and Spanish Catholics at time of encounter was organized through large and small scale community, family, and personal devotions. Devotion expressed through cults was the single most salient aspect in the transfer of Catholicism to New World people. This book highlights the role that ideas such as afterlife, apocalypticism, iconoclasm, Marianism, resistance, and saints played in the emergence of Mexican Catholicism in the sixteenth century. The larger Atlantic world context, as seen in the regions of Iberia, Anahuac, and 'New Spain', or central Mexico from Zacatecas to Oaxaca, is explored in detail. Beginning with an extensive historical essay to contextualize the pre-contact period, the bulk of this volume contains 118 separate keywords each with three comparative essays examining Aztec and Catholic religious practices before and after contact.--, Provided by publisher

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