False mystics: deviant orthodoxy in colonial mexico
Auteur :
Jaffary, Nora E.
Éditeur :
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN :
9780803218406
Date de publication :
1 mai 2008
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
437 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Presents a history of popular religion, race, and gender in colonial Mexico focusing on questions of spiritual and social rebellion and conformity. This work examines more than one hundred trials of "false mystics" whom the Mexican Inquisition prosecuted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.