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Book ID: CBB001202069

Angels, Demons, and the New World (2013)

Cervantes, Fernando (Editor)
Redden, Andrew (Editor)

Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9780521764582

Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xii + 318 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Gods; deities; spirits Science and religion Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence Cosmology Spain, colonies Colonialism Theology Missionaries and missions Native American civilization and culture 17th century Spain Americas

When European notions about angels and demons were exported to the New World, they underwent remarkable adaptations. Angels and demons came to form an integral part of the Spanish American cosmology, leading to the emergence of colonial urban and rural landscapes set within a strikingly theological framework. Belief in celestial and demonic spirits soon regulated and affected the daily lives of Spanish, Indigenous and Mestizo peoples, while missionary networks circulated these practices to create a widespread and generally accepted system of belief that flourished in seventeenth-century Baroque culture and spirituality. This study of angels and demons opens a particularly illuminating window onto intellectual and cultural developments in the centuries that followed the European encounter with America. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of religious studies, anthropology of religion, history of ideas, Latin American colonial history and church history.

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Review Schwartz, Stuart B. (2014) Review of "Angels, Demons, and the New World". Hispanic American Historical Review (p. 313). unapi

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Chapter Keitt, Andrew (2013) The Devil in the Old World: Anti-Superstition Literature, Medical Humanism and Preternatural Philosophy in Early Modern Spain. In: Angels, Demons, and the New World (p. 15). unapi

Chapter Pizzigoni, Caterina (2013) Where Did All the Angels Go? An Interpretation of the Nahua Supernatural World. In: Angels, Demons, and the New World (p. 126). unapi

Chapter Mills, Kenneth (2013) Demonios within and without: Hieronymites and the Devil in the Early Modern Hispanic World. In: Angels, Demons, and the New World (p. 40). unapi

Chapter Cuadriello, Jaime (2013) Winged and Imagined Indians. In: Angels, Demons, and the New World (p. 211). unapi

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