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From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico : Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire / edited by David Charles Wright-Carr and Francisco Marco Simón.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- iveness, Spain's Ministry of Economy and Competit, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Acculturation--Religious aspects.
- Acculturation.
- Imperialism--Religious aspects.
- Imperialism.
- Globalization--Social aspects--New Spain.
- Globalization.
- Globalization--Social aspects--Rome.
- Globalization--Religious aspects.
- New Spain--History--Religious life and customs.
- New Spain.
- Rome--History--Religious life and customs.
- Rome.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2022]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- David Charles Wright-Carr is full professor in the Department of Visual Arts of the University of Guanajuato (Mexico) and corresponding member of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia. He has been awarded research grants and fellowships by the University of Texas at Austin, the Department of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, the Newberry Library, and the Princeton University Library. He is the author of Lectura del Náhuatl and editor of Origen de la santísima cruz de milagrosde la ciudad de Querétaro. Francisco Marco Simón is emeritus professor of ancient history at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). He is the author of Cultus deorum: La religión en la Roma antigua and coeditor of Magical Practice in the Latin West, Contesti Magici / Contextos Mágicos, and Choosing Magic: Contexts, Objects, Meaning; The Archaeology of Instrumental Religion in the Latin West and has been awarded the European Prize of 2006 by the Prehistoric Society of London.
- Summary:
- "From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica. With the analysis of empire and globalization and a postcolonial perspective on religion, the book proposes the method of "analytical comparison" to conceptualize affinities and differences between geographies"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Ritual mediation on the middle ground : Rome and New Spain compared / Greg Woolf
- A long way to become Christian : Romans, Hungarians, and the Nahua / György Nemeth
- Human sacrifice and the religion of the other : barbarians, pagans and Aztecs / Francisco Marco Simón
- The Aztec sun and its Mesoamerican milieu from a classical Mediterranean perspective / Lorenzo Perez Yarza
- Donkeys and hares : the enemy warrior in the early European Chronicles of the Conquest / Paolo Taviani
- Cultural persistence and appropriation in the Huamantla map / David Charles Wright-Carr
- Comparison and the Franciscan construction of Mesoamerican polytheism through Augustine of Hippo's De Civitate Dei / Sergio Botta
- Bernardino de Sahagún on Nahua astrology and divination : Greco-Roman traditions, Christian disapproval and ambiguity, and Mesoamerican practices / Guilhem Olivier
- A version of the millennial Kingdom in the Portería of the Franciscan Convent in Cholula, Mexico / María Celia Fontana Calvo
- Smoking stones and smoking mirrors : the limits of antiquarianism in New Spain / Martin Devecka.
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781646423163
- 164642316X
- OCLC:
- 1366104206
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