RT Book
T1 Indigenous and black confraternities in colonial Latin America: negotiating status through religious practices
T2 Connected histories in the early modern world
A2 Jaque H., Javiera 1982-
A2 Valerio, Miguel Alejandro
LA English
PP Amsterdam
PB Amsterdam University Press
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1804035882
AB Employing a transregional and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores indigenous and black confraternities - or lay Catholic brotherhoods - founded in colonial Spanish America and Brazil between the sixteenth and eighteenth century. It presents a varied group of cases of religious confraternities founded by subaltern subjects, both in rural and urban spaces of colonial Latin America, to understand the dynamics and relations between the peripheral and central areas of colonial society, underlying the ways in which colonialized subjects navigated the colonial domain with forms of social organization and cultural and religious practices. The book analyzes indigenous and black confraternal cultural practices as forms of negotiation and resistance shaped by local devotional identities that also transgressed imperial religious and racial hierarchies. The analysis of these practices explores the intersections between ethnic identity and ritual devotion, as well as how the establishment of black and indigenous religious confraternities carried the potential to subvert colonial discourse.
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022)
SN 9789048552351
SN 9789463721547
K1 Confraternities : Latin America
K1 Black people : Religious life : History : Latin America
K1 Indigenous Peoples : Religious life : History : Latin America