Claassen / Ammon Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

A Guide to Aztec and Catholic Beliefs and Practices
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-009-00651-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Claassen, Cheryl

Ammon, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Leben & Brauch, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Migrants, Mendicants and Mary: Anahuac to New Spain; II. Keywords; Appendix I. Aztec Feast Cycle; Appendix II. Europeans, Aztecs, and New Spaniards; Glossary.

Über Autor(innen)

Ammon, Laura
Laura Ammon is Associate Professor of Religion at Appalachian State University.

Claassen, Cheryl
Cheryl Claassen is Research Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University.