Cultural encounters : the impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World / edited by Mary Elizabeth Perry and Anne J. Cruz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perry, Mary Elizabeth, 1937- editor.

Cruz, Anne J., editor.

Series:

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA Series

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA Series ; v.24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--Congresses.

Indians of Mexico.

Inquisition--Mexico--Congresses.

Inquisition.

Inquisition--Spain--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1991]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

More than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained despite oppression. Persecuted groups were able to survive the Inquisition by means of diverse strategies--whether Christianized Jews in Spain preserving their experiences in literature, or native American folk healers practicing medical care. These investigations of social resistance and cultural persistence will reinforce the cultural significance of the Inquisition. Contributors: Jaime Contreras, Anne J. Cruz, Jesús M. De Bujanda, Richard E. Greenleaf, Stephen Haliczer, Stanley M. Hordes, Richard L. Kagan, J. Jorge Klor de Alva, Moshe Lazar, Angus I. K. MacKay, Geraldine McKendrick, Roberto Moreno de los Arcos, Mary Elizabeth Perry, Noemí Quezada, María Helena Sanchez Ortega, Joseph H. Silverman This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE The Inquisition and the Limits of Discipline

ONE Colonizing Souls : The Failure o f the Indian Inquisition and the Rise of Penitential Discipline

TWO New Spain's Inquisition for Indians from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

T H RE E The Inquisition's Repression of Curanderos

FOU R Sorcery and Eroticism in Love Magic

FIV E Visionaries and Affective Spirituality during the First Half of the Sixteenth Century

SIX Politics , Prophecy, and the Inquisition in Late Sixteenth-Century Spain

PART TWO Persecution and Persistence

SEVEN Family and Patronage : The Judeo-Converso Minority in Spain

E I G H T The Jew as Witch : Displaced Aggression and the Myth of the Santo Nino de La Guardia

NINE On Knowing Other People's Lives , I nquisitorially and Artistically

TEN Scorched Parchments and Tortured Memories : The "Jewishness" of the Anussim (Crypto-Jews)

ELEVEN The Inquisition and the Crypto-Jewish Community in Colonial New Spain and New Mexico

PART THREE Bibliographical Essays

TWELVE Recent Historiography of the Spanish Inquisition (1977-1988) : Balance and Perspective

THIRTEEN Historiography of the Mexican Inquisition : Evolution of Interpretations and Methodologies

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-520-37741-9

OCLC:

1436832376