Abstract

GONZALEZ TORRES, ANNIA  and  REYES RODRIGUEZ, ADOLFO YUNUEN. The Representation of Indian Idolatry: Rituals and Offerings in the Archbishopric of Mexico. 17th Century. Front. hist. [online]. 2019, vol.24, n.1, pp.132-161. ISSN 2027-4688.  https://doi.org/10.22380/20274688.525.

In the Sixteenth Century there was an emphasis in the missional work. In spite of it, the spiritual praxis among the naturals kept involving multiple characteristics of the Prehispanic religious practices, and reworking simbolisms of the Catholicism. In the indian villages, within the viceroyalty, there was a ritual and religious dynamic transgressing the catholic rule; it was aimed as idolatry, superstition and sorcery by the Church authorities. Is relevant to ask wich ones were the fundamental elements in the representation the religious made about the indian idolatry? Thus, how the battle for the souls was represented, in a context where, through the ritual specialists, the Devil was always present?

Keywords : popular religiosity; Indian idolatry; manuals of extirpation of idolatry; ritual and offerings.

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