Author: Luis Becerra TancoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guadalupe, Our Lady of
Languages : es
Pages : 64
Book Description
Felicidad de México en el principio, y milagroso origen, que tuvo el santuario de la Virgen Maria Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe ...
Author: Luis Becerra TancoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guadalupe, Our Lady of
Languages : es
Pages : 64
Book Description
Felicidad de México en el principio, y milagroso origen, que tubo el Santuario de la Virgen María Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Author: Luis Becerra TancoMexican Spirituality
Author: Francisco SchultePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742513556
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This book celebrates a number of Guadalupan sermons that serve as the fundamental source of the Mexican people's unique spiritual devotion and identity. These sermons were preached, published, and circulated among the populace of Mexico in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They proclaim an unshakable conviction that the peoples of the American continent are the uniquely blessed recipients of God's, and especially Mary's, favor. In their modern sense, these sermons provide a wealth of information on Mexican theology, spirituality, and religious self-understanding at a pivotal time in a people's culture.
Mexican Phoenix
Author: D. A. BradingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521531603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Juan Diego, to whom the Virgin Mary appeared in 1531 miraculously imprinting her likeness on his cape, was canonised in Mexico in 2002 by Pope John Paul II. In 1999, the revered image of Our Lady of Guadalupe had been proclaimed patron saint of the Americas by the Pope. How did a poor Indian and a sixteenth-century Mexican painting of the Virgin Mary attract such unprecedented honours? Across the centuries the enigmatic power of the image has aroused fervent devotion in Mexico: it served as the banner of the rebellion against Spanish rule and, despite scepticism and anti-clericalism, still remains a potent symbol of the modern nation. This book traces the intellectual origins, the sudden efflorescence and the adamantine resilience of the tradition of Our Lady of Guadalupe and will fascinate anyone concerned with the history of religion and its symbols.
Felicidad de Mexico en el principio, y milagroso origen, que tubo el Santuario de la Virgen María N. Señora de Guadalupe...
Author: Luis Becerra TancoThe First America
Author: D. A. BradingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521447966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
This book, designed and written on a grand scale, is about the quest over three centuries of Spaniards born in the New World to define their 'American' identity.
The Myth of Quetzalcoatl
Author: Alfredo López AustinPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607323990
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The Myth of Quetzalcoatl is a translation of Alfredo López Austin’s 1973 book Hombre-Dios: Religión y politica en el mundo náhuatl. Despite its pervasive and lasting influence on the study of Mesoamerican history, religion in general, and the Quetzalcoatl myth in particular, this work has not been available in English until now. The importance of Hombre-Dios and its status as a classic arise from its interdisciplinary approach, creative use of a wide range of source material, and unsurpassed treatment of its subject—the nature and content of religious beliefs and rituals among the native populations of Mesoamerica and the manner in which they fused with and helped sanctify political authority and rulership in both the pre- and post-conquest periods. Working from a wide variety of previously neglected documentary sources, incorporating myth, archaeology, and the ethnography of contemporary Native Americans including non-Nahua peoples, López Austin traces the figure of Quetzalcoatl as a “Man-God” from pre-conquest times, while Russ Davidson’s translator’s note, Davíd Carrasco's foreword, and López Austin’s introduction place the work within the context of modern scholarship. López Austin’s original work on Quetzalcoatl is a pivotal work in the field of anthropology, and this long-overdue English translation will be of significance to historians, anthropologists, linguists, and serious readers interested in Mesoamerica.
Aztec Latin
Author: Andrew LairdPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197586376
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
In 1536, only fifteen years after the fall of the Aztec empire, Franciscan missionaries began teaching Latin, classical rhetoric, and Aristotelian philosophy to native youths in central Mexico. The remarkable linguistic and cultural exchanges that would result from that initiative are the subject of this book. Aztec Latin highlights the importance of Renaissance humanist education for early colonial indigenous history, showing how practices central to humanism ? the cultivation of eloquence, the training of leaders, scholarly translation, and antiquarian research ? were transformed in New Spain to serve Indian elites as well as the Spanish authorities and religious orders. While Franciscan friars, inspired by Erasmus' ideal of a common tongue, applied principles of Latin grammar to Amerindian languages, native scholars translated the Gospels, a range of devotional literature, and even Aesop's fables into the Mexican language of Nahuatl. They also produced significant new writings in Latin and Nahuatl, adorning accounts of their ancestral past with parallels from Greek and Roman history and importing themes from classical and Christian sources to interpret pre-Hispanic customs and beliefs. Aztec Latin reveals the full extent to which the first Mexican authors mastered and made use of European learning and provides a timely reassessment of what those indigenous authors really achieved.
Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy
Author: Galen BrokawPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 081650072X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy provides a much-needed overview of the life, work, and contribution of an important seventeenth-century historian. The volume explores the complexities of Alva Ixtlilxochitl's life and works, revising and broadening our understanding of his racial and cultural identity and his contribution to Mexican history.
Flower Worlds
Author: Michael MathiowetzPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816542325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The recognition of Flower Worlds is one of the most significant breakthroughs in the study of Indigenous spirituality in the Americas.Flower Worldsis the first volume to bring together a diverse range of scholars to create an interdisciplinary understanding of floral realms that extend at least 2,500 years in the past.