Missionizing on the edge : religion and power in the Jesuit missions of Spanish Amazonia / by Francismar Alex Lopes de Carvalho.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carvalho, Francismar Alex Lopes de, author.

Series:

Jesuit studies ; 2214-3289 v. 37.

Jesuit studies, 2214-3289 ; volume 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions--Social aspects--Peru--Maynas.

Missions.

Jesuits--Missions--Peru--Maynas.

Jesuits.

Indians of South America--Peru--Maynas--Social conditions.

Indians of South America.

Ethnic relations--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Ethnic relations.

Peru--Ethnic relations--History.

Peru.

Indians of South America--Social conditions.

Missions--Social aspects.

Peru--Maynas.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 376 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

"Established in 1638 in a vast Amazonian territory that today encompasses border areas of Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, the missions of Maynas were one of the Society of Jesus' main enterprises in Spanish America. Jesuit writings provide a unique insight into the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century encounters between Europeans and indigenous peoples. In effect, they shed light on how native Amazonians appropriated elements of Christian religiosity and Iberian urban culture. This book is not only about how indigenous populations experienced life in missions. It is above all a study of how natives actively engaged with the practices and ideas of settlement and religiosity transmitted by the Jesuits"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Images of Natives

1. "Friendly" and "Barbaric" Indians

2. Settlers, Missionaries, and Imagined Indians

3. Encomenderos and Images of Natives

2. Images of the Devil

1. The Devil in Amazonia

2. The Devil's Physical Presence

3. Shamans and the Devil

3. Missionary Entradas and Ethnic Processes

1. Missionary Entradas and Punitive Expeditions

2. Modus Operandi

3. Parcialidades and Ethnicities

4. Territorial Disputes and the Financing of the Missionary Enterprise

1. On the Frontiers of the Real Patronato

2. Origins of the Resources

3. Procurators, Martyrs, and Territorial Possession

4. The Missionaries' Annual Synod

5. The Trade in Mission Products

6. The Missionary Shortage

5. Between Captivity and Conversion: Spanish Jesuits, Portuguese Carmelites, and Indigenous Peoples

1. Carmelites

2. War Troops and Ransoming Troops

3. Ransoming Troops and the Carmelites

4. The Rhetoric of Conquest and Indigenous Agency

6. Mediators of the Sacred: Missionaries' Indigenous Auxiliaries

1. Cabildantes and fiscales de doctrina

2. Competitive Sociability

3. Fault and Correction

4. Reversibility and Reframing

7. "A Veritable Jungle of Languages": Jesuits, Language Policy, and Cultural Translation

1. Challenges Involved in Learning

2. The Interpreters

3. Aspects of Language Policy

4. Vocabularies and Catechisms

5. The Translation of Christian Doctrine

8. Conversions

1. Jesuits and Shamans

2. Catechesis and Mass in the Daily Life of Missions

3. Forms of Appropriating Catholic Festivals and Devotions

4. Ambiguities Surrounding the Sacraments

5. Civil Customs and Religious Rites.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Carvalho, Francismar Alex Lopes de. Missionizing on the edge

ISBN:

9789004462038

9004462031

OCLC:

1347363421