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1 online resource |
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European Expansion and Indigenous Response |
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European expansion and indigenous response.
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| Contents |
Changes in Ethical Worldviews of Spanish Missionaries in Mexico: An Ethical Transition from Sight to Touch in the16th and 17th Centuries; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; General Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Figures and Tables; Glossary of Foreign Terms; Introduction; 1 Conversion and an Ethical Worldview; 2 Methodology; 3 Authors of the Historical Sources; 1 From Sight to Touch in the Ethical Narrative; 1.1 Earth, Body, and Clothes; 1.2 The Body; 1.3 Poverty; 1.4 Identity and Will; 1.5 Sight, Touch and Free Will -- A Summary; 2 Two Ethical Systems: Example and Mystery |
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2.1 The Beautiful and the True2.2 From Example to Mystery ('ejemplo''misterio') -To Learn from a Human Story; 2.3 Self-identity and Historical Memory-Homeland, Family, and History; 2.4 Moral Particularism and the Ethical Dispute; 3 Cruelty; 3.1 Cruelty in the SixteenthCentury -- the Object of Cruelty; 3.2 Cruelty in the SeventeenthCentury -- Torquemada and the Cruelty of Sacrifice -- the Story of the Goddess Toci; 3.3 Cruelty, Dominion/Rule, and Justice; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
\'Conversion\' is a basic religious concept, which has manifold implications for our everyday lives. Ran Tene's Changes in Ethical Worldviews of Spanish Missionaries in Mexico utilizes a cross-disciplinary methodology in which the fields of Philosophy, History, and Literary Studies are drawn upon to analyze conversion. He focuses on two moments in Spanish writing about Mexican missions, the early to mid-sixteenth century writings of the Spanish missionaries to Mexico and the early seventeenth century manuscripts of the author/copyist Fray Juan de Torquemada. The analysis exposes changes in worldviews - including the concepts of identity, ownership, and cruelty - through missionary eyes. It suggests two theoretical models - the vision model and the model of touch - to describe these changes, which are manifested in the missionary project and in the texts that it (re)produced |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468.
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Motolinía, Toribio, -1568.
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| SUBJECT |
Motolinía, Toribio, -1568 fast |
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Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468 fast |
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Missions -- Mexico -- History
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Conversion -- Christianity.
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Psychology, Religious.
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psychology of religion.
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RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions.
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Conversion -- Christianity
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Missions
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Psychology, Religious
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Mexico
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004284555 |
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9004284559 |
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1336207353 |
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9781336207356 |
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