The Pyramid Under the Cross Franciscan Discourses of Evangelization and the Nahua Christian Subject in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.03.2005
Verlag
University Of Arizona PressSeitenzahl
270
Maße (L/B/H)
23.6/15.8/2.5 cm
Gewicht
527 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8165-2380-1
"The Pyramid under the Cross" looks at the epic project of Christianization as well as the limits of the Spanish spiritual colonizers' power to accomplish it. The book focuses on activities of Franciscan missionaries who, as the first religious order to arrive, occupied the most important political and social centers in the Valley of Mexico and set the strategies of evangelization that others would follow. One such activity, the Nahua theater of evangelization, is represented as an exemplary case of the inevitable cultural negotiation involved in the missionary process. The author explores not only the imposition of a Eurocentric worldview upon the Nahua but also the hybridization of this view as the spiritual colonizer attempted to encompass a new non-Western constituency and the latter interpreted Christianity according to its own cultural paradigms.
The book treats a wide range of texts--the "Historia eclesiAstica indiana," the "Confessionario Mayor," the "Coloquios de los Doce," and more--both by renowned Franciscan figures such as GerA3nimo de Mendieta, Alonso de Molina, Bernardino de SahagAn, and by Nahua grammarians Antonio Valeriano de Azcapotzalco, AndrA(c)s Leonardo de Tlatelolco, and others. DA-az Balsera engages the culturalconstraints of all the actors in the episodes she relates in order to show how the exchange between them resulted in the appropriation and/or alteration of the Spanish discourses of spiritual domination--sometimes even in their breakdown--and how it brought about the emergence of Nahua Christian subjects that would never fully leave behind their ancient ways of relating to the gods.
"The Pyramid under the Cross" will be of interest to readers in the areas of Hispanic literatures, history, religion, anthropology, Latin American and cultural studies, and to those working in the field of colonial studies.
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