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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910495870103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1991
• ISBN: 0-585-30035-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 288 p. ) : ill.
• Altri autori (Persone): PerryMary Elizabeth <1937->; CruzAnne J. <1941->; CruzAnne J
• Disciplina: 272/.2
• Soggetti: Inquisition - Spain; Inquisition - Mexico; Indians of Mexico; Inquisition - Congresses - Spain; Inquisition - Congresses - Mexico; Indians of Mexico - Congresses; Religion; Philosophy & Religion; Christianity; Conference proceedings.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Published under the auspices of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles"--Half t.p.; Papers presented at an international conference held March 25-27, 1988 in Los Angeles, Calif., sponsored by the University of California, Irvine, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Colonizing souls : the failure of the Indian Inquisition and the rise of penitential discipline / J. Jorge Klor de Alva -- New Spain's Inquisition for Indians from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century / Roberto Moreno de los Arcos -- The Inquisition's repression of Curanderos / Noemí Quezada -- Sorcery and eroticism in love magic / María Helena ; Sánchez Ortega -- Visionaries and affective spirituality during the first half of the sixteenth century / Geraldine McKendrick and Angus MacKay -- Politics, prophecy, and the Inquisition in late sixteenth-century Spain / Richard L. Kagan -- Family and patronage : the Judeo-converso minority in Spain / Jamie Contreras -- The Jew as witch : displaced aggression and the myth of the Santo Niño de la Guardia / Stephen Haliczer.; On knowing other people's lives, inquisitorially and artistically / Joseph H. Silverman -- Scorched parchments and tortured memories : the "Jewishness" of the Anussim (Crypto-Jews) / Moshe Lazar -- The Inquisition and the crypto-Jewish community in colonial New Spain and New Mexico / Stanley M. Hordes -- Recent historiography of the Spanish Inquisition (1977-1988) : balance and perspective / Jesús M. De Bujanda -- Historiography of the Mexican Inquisition : evolution of interpretations and methodologies / Richard E. Greenleaf.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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--Publisher's description.