Church Life between the Metropolitan and the Local

Church Life between the Metropolitan and the Local

Parishes, Parishioners and Parish Priests in Seventeenth-Century Mexico

Church Life between the Metropolitan and the Local is a study of parishes, parishioners and parish priests in central Mexico during the first half of the seventeenth century. Using a number of different genres found in archives and libraries on both sides of the Atlantic, the book gives a multifaceted picture of the parish life. It addresses metropolitan norms for the ministry as well as priestly and indigenous interpretations of the day-to-day life in the local church. Throughout the book particular emphasis is put on the interface between the indigenous parishioners and their parish priests, thus contributing to a closer study of the slow-moving processes of religious indoctrination and religious change in central Mexico a century or more after the Conquest.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • A note on toponyms
  • Local church life between noorms and praxis Church and Religion in Early Colonial Maturity:
    • Aspects of a Research Field
    • The Church: Local and Metropolitan
    • The Parish and its Clergy
    • Norms
    • The Ordinary
    • Records and sources
    • Archives and Libraries
    • The Chaters
  • Parishes in two colonial dioceses
    • Diocesan Geography
    • Population and Languages
    • Parish Divisions
    • Regular and Secular P arishes
  • Trent comes to mexico: provincial council decrees
    • The Council, Its Decrees and the Road to Publication
    • The Status and Impact of the Decrees
    • The Priest
    • The Parish Ministry
    • The Indigenous Parishioners
  • The bishop's eye: visitation records
    • The Institution of Visitation
    • Mexican Visitation Records
    • Three Visitation Books
  • Clerical vademecum: sacramental manuals
    • Clerical Linguists
    • The Manuale Genre
    • The Lorra Baquio Manual (1634)
    • The Nágera Yanguas Manual (1637)
    • The Sáenz de la Peña Manual (1642)
  • Unearth the hidden: extirpation records
    • Idolarty and Jurisdiction
    • Pedro Ponce de León
    • Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón
    • Jacinto de la serna
  • We accuse: indigenous petitions
    • The Corpus
    • Accusations against Parish Clergy
    • Support for Parish Priests
    • The Priests Good and Bad
    • The Parishioners Good and Bad
  • Priests in Search of promotion: narratives of merits and services
    • Becoming a Beneficiary
    • The Corpus
    • The Priests
    • Priests Worthy of Promotion
  • Epilogue: local church life in early colonial maturity
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Indexes

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