Religion in sixteenth-century Mexico : a guide to Aztec and Catholic beliefs and practices

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. Cover Half-title Title Page Copyright Information Dedication Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Migrants, Mendicants, And Mary: Anahuac To New Spain 1 The Scope Of This Survey 2 Aztec Religion 2.1 The Ancient Foundation Of Aztec Religion 2.1.1 Olmecs 2.1.2 Teotihuacan 2.1.3 After Teotihuacan 2.1.4 The Nahuatl Migrants 2.2 Theological Developments 1325–1519: The Creation Of A StateReligion 2.3 Aztecs 1502–1519 2.4 Aztec Religion In 1519 3 Spanish Catholicism Of The 15th Century 3.1 The Institutional Church 3.2 Purgatory 3.3 The Virgin Mary 3.4 Millennialism/apocalypticism 3.4.1 Joachim De Fiore And The Spiritual Franciscans 3.5 Cabala 3.6 Reforming The Church 4 Creating New Spain 4.1 Mexico-tenochtitlan 4.2 Spanish Government 4.3 Catholic Church Governance 4.4 Religious Life And Conflicts 4.4.1 Delivering The Message 4.4.2 Political Problems For The Mendicants 4.5 The Close Of The Century *A Adultery Afterlife Altar Ancestor Angel Apocalypse Arrow Astrology Astronomy *B Baptism Bee Bell Bird Birth Blood Bloodletting Blue Body: Human Bone *C Calendar Cave Celibacy Cemetery Children Communion Conception Confession Confirmation Conversion Cosmos Covenant Creation Cross Crucifix Cult *D Dance Day Death Decapitation Deer Deity Embodiment Demon/monster Devil Divination/magic Divorce Drunkenness *E Eagle East Effigy Equinox *F Fasting Fate Feast Fertility Flower Food Free Will *G Garden Gift God Gold *H Head Healing Heart Heaven Hell Human Sacrifice *I Image/idol Incense Incorruptibility Insect *K Knot *L Landscape: Urban And Rural Laziness *M Marriage Mary Medicine Monastery Moon Morals Morning Star Mother/mary Mountain Music *N Naming *O Offering Omen Original Sin *P Paradise Patron Penance Pilgrimage Prayer Priest Procession Purity *Q Quadripartite World *R Rain Red Relic Religious Architecture Religious Instruction Religious Labor Rock *S Sacred Bundle Serpent Sex Shrine Sin Skull/head Slave Sodality Sodomy/homosexuality Song Soul Speech Spring/well Star Stone Suicide Sun Supreme Deity Sweeping *T Text Theater Thorn Tree Tripartite Spirit/trinity *U Underworld/hell Upperworld *V Venus Vestment Virginity Vision/omen *W Warrior/Soldier Water Weeping White Witchcraft Women Appendix I Aztec Feast Cycle Appendix II Persons Of Note In Europe And Mexico Europe Mexico Glossary References Index "Religion in 16th Century Mexico explores the development of religion as transferred from Spain to Tenochtitlan. The religious world of both Aztecs and Spanish Catholics at the 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 16th 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 precontact 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