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"Pardo's study provides a persuasive criticism of the widespread assumption that the process of Christianization in Mexico can be conceived as the imposition of a complete and fool-proof system that did not accept doubts or compromises. The Origins of Mexican Catholicism will become an invaluable tool for future researchers and enrich future debates on the subject." ---Fernando Cervantes, Bristol University, UK "Pardo does an excellent job of balancing and contrasting sixteenth-century Catholic theology with Nahua thought and belief." ---John F. Schwaller, University of Minnesota At first glance, religious conversion may appear to be only a one-way street. When studying sixteenth-century Mexico, one might assume that colonial coercion was the driving force behind the religious conversion of the native population. But The Origins of Mexican Catholicism shows how Spanish missionaries instead drew on existing native ceremonies in order to make Christianity more accessible to the Nahua population whom they were trying to convert. Osvaldo F. Pardo explains that religious figures not only shaped native thought, but that indigenous rituals had an impact on the religion itself. This work i

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Author

Osvaldo F. Pardo

Publisher

University of Michigan Press ; University Presses Marketing

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472031849

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, History, Science