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 |
| Publication | Denver, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2023] |
| Description | x, 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: From ancient Rome to colonial Mexico Louisville : University Press of Colorado, 2023 9781646423163 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022058923 |
| ISBN | 9781646423156 |
| ISBN | 1646423151 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |