| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 03, 2023) |
| Subject |
Globalization -- Religious aspects.
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Globalization -- Social aspects -- Rome
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Imperialism -- Religious aspects
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Globalization -- Social aspects -- New Spain
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Acculturation -- Religious aspects
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Globalization -- Religious aspects.
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Globalization -- Social aspects.
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HISTORY / General
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- History -- Religious life and customs
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New Spain -- History -- Religious life and customs
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| Subject |
New Spain.
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wright, David, 1956- editor.
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Marco Simón, Francisco, editor.
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| LC no. |
2022058924 |
| ISBN |
9781646423163 |
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164642316X |
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