New Mexican Spanish religious oratory, 1800-1900 / edited, and with an introduction by Thomas J. Steele.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steele, Thomas J.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Preaching--New Mexico--History--19th century.

Preaching.

Sermons, Spanish--New Mexico.

Sermons, Spanish.

History.

New Mexico.

Physical Description:

vii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English and Spanish.

Summary:

The sermons collected here in Spanish and English show how nineteenth-century speakers attempted to interpret and apply the Word of God to everyday lives. Steele documents the attempts of all manner of laity and clergy -- Mexican Franciscans and Italian Jesuits, Hispanics and Anglos, Catholics, Methodists, and Presbyterians -- not only to interpret scripture but also to persuade people to amend their behavior.

With insightful and pithy introductions by Steele and meticulously documented throughout, this book examines the words as well as the contextualized meanings behind the words of some important New Mexican spiritual leaders. The persuasive purpose of the sermons takes the reader into the realm of "authority", quite a trek for the twentieth-century reader more accustomed to the religion of comfort. Steele invites modern readers to reinvent themselves, to become, vicariously, believers: to listen with one-hundred-year-old ears.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0826317685

OCLC:

34752125