Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Colonial Latin America Negotiating Status through Religious Practices

Employing a transregional and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores indigenous and black confraternities -or lay Catholic brotherhoods- founded in colonial Spanish America and Brazil between the sixteenth and eighteenth century. It presents a varied group of cases of religious confraterni...

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Main Authors:	Jaque Hidalgo, Javiera, Valerio, Miguel A.
Format:	eBook Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2022
Series:	Connected Histories in the Early Modern World
Subjects:	Afro-Latin American religious agency Amerindian religious agency AUP Wetenschappelijk Confraternities Cultural Studies Early Modern Studies General history of South America HISTORY / Latin America / South America History, Art History, and Archaeology RELIGION / Christian Church / History RELIGION / Christianity / History Religion and Theology South South America Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America 1500 to c 1700 History of religion South Early Modern Studies Christianity History, Art History, and Archaeology AUP Wetenschappelijk Latin America Hispanic and Latino studies Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures, tribes and other groupings of people RELIGION Christian Church Cultural Studies Relating to Latin Early modern history: c 1450 Religion and Theology Confraternities, Amerindian religious agency, Afro-Latin American religious agency History of the Americas Hispanic American people HISTORY Indigenous peoples Confraternities Amerindian religious agency Afro-Latin American religious agency
ISBN:	9463721541, 9789463721547, 9789048552351, 9048552354
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Summary:	Employing a transregional and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores indigenous and black confraternities -or lay Catholic brotherhoods- founded in colonial Spanish America and Brazil between the sixteenth and eighteenth century. It presents a varied group of cases of religious confraternities founded by subaltern subjects, both in rural and urban spaces of colonial Latin America, to understand the dynamics and relations between the peripheral and central areas of colonial society, underlying the ways in which colonialized subjects navigated the colonial domain with forms of social organization and cultural and religious practices. The book analyzes indigenous and black confraternal cultural practices as forms of negotiation and resistance shaped by local devotional identities that also transgressed imperial religious and racial hierarchies. The analysis of these practices explores the intersections between ethnic identity and ritual devotion, as well as how the establishment of black and indigenous religious confraternities carried the potential to subvert colonial discourse.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-397) and index
ISBN:	9463721541 9789463721547 9789048552351 9048552354
DOI:	10.1515/9789048552351