From ancient Rome to colonial Mexico : religious globalization in the context of empire / edited by David Charles Wright-Carr and Francisco Marco Sim on.

Other author Wright, David, 1956- editor.
Other author Marco Simón, Francisco, editor.
Format Book
PublicationDenver, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2023]
Descriptionx, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Ritual mediation on the middle ground : Rome and New Spain compared / Greg Woolf -- A long way to become Christian : Romans, Hungarians, and the Nahua / Gy orgy N emeth -- Human sacrifice and the religion of the other : barbarians, pagans and Aztecs / Francisco Marco Sim on -- The Aztec sun and its Mesoamerican milieu from a classical Mediterranean perspective / Lorenzo P erez Yarza -- Donkeys and hares : the enemy warrior in the early European Chronicles of the Conquest / Paolo Taviani -- Cultural persistence and appropriation in the Huamantla map / David Charles Wright-Carr -- Comparison and the Franciscan construction of Mesoamerican polytheism through Augustine of Hippo's De Civitate Dei / Sergio Botta -- Bernardino de Sahag un on Nahua astrology and divination : Greco-Roman traditions, Christian disapproval and ambiguity, and Mesoamerican practices / Guilhem Olivier -- A version of the millennial Kingdom in the Porter ia of the Franciscan Convent in Cholula, M exico / Mar ia Celia Fontana Calvo -- Smoking stones and smoking mirrors : the limits of antiquarianism in New Spain / Martin Devecka.
Abstract "From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica. With the analysis of empire and globalization and a postcolonial perspective on religion, the book proposes the method of "analytical comparison" to conceptualize affinities and differences between geographies"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: From ancient Rome to colonial Mexico Louisville : University Press of Colorado, 2023 9781646423163
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2022058923
ISBN9781646423156
ISBN1646423151 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book