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  • Chapter 13 - Indigenous Peoples and Catholicism in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City

  • from Part III - Belief Systems
  • Edited by Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Michigan State University, Amber Brian, University of Iowa
  • Book:
    Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800
    Published online:
    25 November 2022
    Print publication:
    08 December 2022, pp 195-208

  • Summary

    The presence of the Catholic Church and the imposition of religious beliefs and practices onto the newly found inhabitants of the Americas was perhaps one of the biggest catalysts of transition during the early modern period. This chapter focuses on the literature that was produced for, and by indigenous peoples within the religious realm. It considers different discursive genres that are emblematic of the transitions that natives experienced when they were into close and sustained contact with religious institutions, such as plays for conversion and evangelization, sermons, catechisms, spiritual biographies, and other prescriptive literature.