Michoacán and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico

Don Vasco de Quiroga (1470-1565) was the first bishop of Michoacán in Western Mexico. Driven by the...
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Author: Bernardino Verástique
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Language: English
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Michoacán and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico by Verástique, Bernardino

Michoacán and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico

€56,17

Michoacán and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico

€56,17
Author: Bernardino Verástique
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Don Vasco de Quiroga (1470-1565) was the first bishop of Michoacán in Western Mexico. Driven by the desire to convert the native Purhépecha-Chichimec peoples to a purified form of Christianity, free of the corruptions of European Catholicism, he sought to establish New World Edens in Michoacán by congregating the people into pueblo-hospital communities, where mendicant friars could more easily teach them the fundamental beliefs of Christianity and the values of Spanish culture.

In this broadly synthetic study, Bernardino Verástique explores Vasco de Quiroga's evangelizing project in its full cultural and historical context. He begins by recreating the complex and not wholly incompatible worldviews of the Purhépecha and the Spaniards at the time of their first encounter in 1521. With Quiroga as a focal point, Verástique then traces the uneasy process of assimilation and resistance that occurred on both sides as the Spaniards established political and religious dominance in Michoacán. He describes the syncretisms, or fusions, between Christianity and indigenous beliefs and practices that arose among the Purhépecha and relates these to similar developments in other regions of Mexico.

Written especially for students and general readers, this book demonstrates how cultural and geographical environments influence religious experience, while it adds to our understanding of the process of indigenous appropriation of Christian theological concepts in the New World.



Author: Bernardino Verástique
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 04/01/2000
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.12w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780292787384


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2000 pg. 388

About the Author
Bernardino Verástique was Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio.

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