• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: From ancient Rome to colonial Mexico : religious globalization in the context of empire
  • Contains: 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 Németh
    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 Pérez 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, México / / María Celia Fontana Calvo
    Smoking stones and smoking mirrors : the limits of antiquarianism in New Spain / / Martin Devecka.
  • Contributor: Wright, David [HerausgeberIn]; Marco Simón, Francisco [HerausgeberIn]
  • imprint: Denver: University Press of Colorado, [2023]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 290 Seiten); Illustrationen
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.5876/9781646423163
  • ISBN: 9781646423163
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  • Keywords: Globalization Religious aspects ; Globalization Social aspects Rome ; Globalization Social aspects New Spain ; Imperialism Religious aspects ; Acculturation Religious aspects ; Rome History Religious life and customs ; New Spain History Religious life and customs
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: "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"--
  • Access State: Open Access