Conflict and conversion in sixteenth century central Mexico : the Augustinian war on and beyond the Chichimeca frontier /

Conflict and conversion in sixteenth century central Mexico : the Augustinian war on and beyond the Chichimeca frontier /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Jackson, Robert H. (Robert Howard)
Imprint:	Leiden : BRILL, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	European expansion and indigenous response ; 12 European expansion and indigenous response ; 12.
Subject:	Augustinians -- Missions -- Mexico -- History -- 16th century. Augustinians. Chichimecs -- Wars, 1550-1591. Chichimecs -- Missions -- History -- 16th century. Chichimecs -- Social conditions. Chichimecs. Missions. Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810. Mexico. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12644395

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ISBN:	9789004251212 9004251219 9004232451 9789004232457 9004251219 9789004232457
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-245), and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: 9789004232457

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Setting the stage : native peoples and Augustinian missions in Central Mexico and beyond the Chichimeca frontier
The war against Satan and sin : the open chapel murals of San Nicolás Tolentino and Santa Maria Xoxoteco
The holy war against the Chichimecas : the Ixmiquilpan church mural series
Beyond the Chichimeca frontier : Augustinian evangelization of the Sierra Gorda, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
Conclusion.