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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