02157nam 2200361 u 450 991096866290332120240724185527.090-485-5665-19789048556656(pdf)9789463725880(CKB)27291320100041(MiAaPQ)EBC30607326(VLeBooks)9789048556656(EXLCZ)992729132010004120230703d20232023 uy 0engCounter-Hispanization in the Colonial Philippines: Literature, Law, Religion, and Native CustomAmsterdam University Press2023Amsterdam :Amsterdam University Press B.V.,[2023]©20231 online resource (352 p.)Connected Histories in the Early Modern World9789463725880 94-6372-588-1 In Counter-Hispanization in the Colonial Philippines, the author analyzes the literature and politics of "spiritual conquest" in order to demonstrate how it reflected the contribution of religious ministers to a protracted period of social anomie throughout the mission provinces between the 16th-18th centuries. By tracking the prose of spiritual conquest with the history of the mission in official documents, religious correspondence, and public controversies, the author shows how, contrary to the general consensus in Philippine historiography, the literature and pastoral politics of spiritual conquest reinforced the frontier character of the religious provinces outside Manila in the Americas as well as the Philippines, by supplanting the (absence of) law in the name of supplementing or completing it. This frontier character accounts for the modern reinvention of native custom as well as the birth of literature and theater in the Tagalog vernacular.Philippine literature (Spanish)Philippine literature (Spanish)959.902Blanco John1824382BOOK9910968662903321Counter-Hispanization in the Colonial Philippines: Literature, Law, Religion, and Native Custom4391521UNINA