ACLS Humanities E-Book: The spiritual conquest of Mexico: an essay on the apostolate and the evangelizing methods of the mendicant orders in New Spain, 1523-1572

The spiritual conquest of Mexico: an essay on the apostolate and the evangelizing methods of the mendicant orders in New Spain, 1523-1572

Ricard, Robert.

Year: 1966.

Publisher: University of California Press.

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Frontmatter

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: The Founding of the Church

1 First Contacts between Paganism and Christianity

2 Ethnographic and Linguistic Training of the Missionaries

3 Geographic Distribution of the Missions and Monasteries

4 Prebaptismal Instruction and Administration of Baptism

5 The Catechism

6 The Administration of the Sacraments

7 Virtues of the Founders

PART TWO:The Stabilization of the Church

8 Social Organization and Public Works

9 The Hospitals

10 Missionary Conditions and Church Architecture

11 Pomp and Magnificence

12 The Edifying Play

13 Primary and Technical Schools

14 Training an Elite: the Problem of a Native Clergy

PART THREE: Conclusions

15 Internal Dissensions

16 Native Resistance

17 The Early Evangelization and the Religious Evolution of Mexico

Appendix I Preface to the Spanish Edition of 1947

Appendix II Essay on Sources

Abbreviations Used in Notes

Notes

Bibliography

Index

reviews

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Title:

The spiritual conquest of Mexico : an essay on the apostolate and the evangelizing methods of the mendicant orders in New Spain, 1523-1572 by Robert Ricard ; translated by Lesley Byrd Simpson.

Author:

Ricard, Robert

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The spiritual conquest of Mexico : an essay on the apostolate and the evangelizing methods of the mendicant orders in New Spain, 1523-1572 by Robert Ricard ; translated by Lesley Byrd Simpson.
Ricard, Robert
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02786

Subject Headings:

• Catholic Church -- Mexico
• Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Bibliography
• Indians of Mexico -- Missions
• Mexico -- Church history
• Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540

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• Translation of La conquête spirituelle du Mexique.
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