Cultural encounters : the impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World

Cultural encounters : the impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World /

More than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained despite oppression. Persecuted groups were able...

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Corporate Authors: University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California
Other Authors: Perry, Mary Elizabeth, 1937-, Cruz, Anne J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1991.
Series:Publications of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; 24.
Subjects:
Katholische Kirche > Congregatio Romanae et Universalis Inquisitionis
Inquisition > Spain > Congresses.
Inquisition > Mexico > Congresses.
Indians of Mexico > Congresses.
Inquisition > Espagne > Congrès.
Inquisition > Mexique > Congrès.
Indiens d'Amérique > Mexique > Congrès.
Indiens d'Amérique > Mexique > Congrès.
Indians of Mexico.
Inquisition.
Geschichte
Indianer
Inquisition
Kongress
Inquisitie.
Joden.
Indianen.
Inquisition > Spain.
Inquisition > Mexico.
Espagne > Histoire religieuse.
Amerique latine > Histoire religieuse.
Inkvisitionen > Mexiko.
Inkvisitionen > Spanien.
Mexico.
Spain.
Mexiko
Spanien
Congress
Kongress > Los Angeles (Calif.) > 1988.
Kongress > LosAngeles, Calif. > 1988.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Konferenzschrift > 1988 > Los Angeles, Calif.
Konferenzschrift > 1988 > LosAngeles, Calif.
Actes de congrès.
Table of Contents:
  • Colonizing souls : the failure of the Indian Inquisition and the rise of penitential discipline / J. Jorge Klor de Alva
  • New Spain's Inquisition for Indians from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century / Roberto Moreno de los Arcos
  • The Inquisition's repression of Curanderos / Noemí Quezada
  • Sorcery and eroticism in love magic / María Helena Sánchez Ortega
  • Visionaries and affective spirituality during the first half of the sixteenth century / Geraldine McKendrick and Angus MacKay
  • Politics, prophecy, and the Inquisition in late sixteenth-century Spain / Richard L. Kagan
  • Family and patronage : the Judeo-converso minority in Spain / Jamie Contreras
  • The Jew as witch : displaced aggression and the myth of the Santo Niño de la Guardia / Stephen Haliczer.
  • On knowing other people's lives, inquisitorially and artistically / Joseph H. Silverman
  • Scorched parchments and tortured memories : the "Jewishness" of the Anussim (Crypto-Jews) / Moshe Lazar
  • The Inquisition and the crypto-Jewish community in colonial New Spain and New Mexico / Stanley M. Hordes
  • Recent historiography of the Spanish Inquisition (1977-1988) : balance and perspective / Jesús M. De Bujanda
  • Historiography of the Mexican Inquisition : evolution of interpretations and methodologies / Richard E. Greenleaf.

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