Coloniality, Religion, and the Law in the Early Iberian World
Ed. Santa Arias and Raúl Marrero-Fente
From postcolonial, interdisciplinary, and transnational perspectives, this collection of original essays looks at the experience of Spain's empire in the Atlantic and the Pacific and its cultural production.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Negotiation between Religion and the Law
Santa Arias and Raúl Marrero-Fente
Part I. Politics
Chapter 1
José de Acosta: Colonial Regimes for a Globalized Christian World
Ivonne del Valle
Chapter 2
Conquistador Counterpoint: Intimate Enmity in the Writings of Bernardo de Vargas Machuca
Kris Lane
Chapter 3
Voices of the Altepetl: Nahua Epistemologies and Resistance in the Anales de Juan Bautista
Ezekiel Stear
Chapter 4
Performances of Indigenous Authority in Postconquest Tlaxcalan Annals: Don Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza’s Historia cronológica de la noble ciudad de Tlaxcala
Kelly S. McDonough
Part II. Religion
Chapter 5
Translating the “Doctrine of Discovery”: Spain, England, and Native American Religions
Ralph Bauer
Chapter 6
Narrating Conversion: Idolatry, the Sacred, and the Ambivalences of Christian Evangelization in Colonial Peru
Laura León Llerena
Chapter 7
Old Enemies, New Contexts: Early Modern Spanish (Re)-Writing of Islam in the Philippines
Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez
Chapter 8
Art That Pushes and Pulls: Visualizing Religion and Law in the Early Colonial Province of Toluca
Delia A. Cosentino
Part III. Law
Chapter 9
The Rhetoric of War and Justice in the Conquest of the Americas: Ethnography, Law, and Humanism in Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de Las Casas
David M. Solodkow
Chapter 10
Human Sacrifice, Conquest, and the Law: Cultural Interpretation and Colonial Sovereignty in New Spain
Cristian Roa
Chapter 11
Legal Pluralism and the “India Pura” in New Spain: The School of Guadalupe and the Convent of the Company of Mary
Mónica Díaz
Chapter 12
Our Lady of Anarchy: Iconography as Law on the Frontiers of the Spanish Empire
John D. (Jody) Blanco
Afterword
Teleiopoesis at the Crossroads of the Colonial/Postcolonial Divide
José Rabasa