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- The Very Nature of God: Baroque Catholicism and Religious Reform in Bourbon Mexico City
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of New Mexico Press
summary
Larkin examines baroque Catholicism, the project to reform religious culture in Mexico, and the new pious practices that reformers and the faithful negotiated as the colonial period moved toward a close. He argues that baroque and reformed Catholicism rested on different understandings of the very nature of God. Baroque Catholicism privileged a corporeal conception of God; whereas reformed piety promoted a more spiritual one. Religious reform, he argues, coincided with secular reforming projects, all of which participated in and influenced new forms of epistemology and subjectivity that established the conditions for the contested beginnings of the modern era in eighteenth-century Mexico.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. iiii
- Illustrations
- p. ix
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-21
- 1: Baroque Mexico City
- pp. 25-27
- 2: Sacred Immanence
- pp. 28-50
- 3: Performative and Liturgical Piety
- pp. 51-69
- 4: The Splendor of Worship
- pp. 70-92
- 6: Reforming Mexico City
- pp. 119-123
- 7: The Reformers’ Program
- pp. 124-153
- Conclusion
- pp. 216-224
- APPENDIX: Note on Sources
- pp. 225-243
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 289-303
Additional Information
ISBN
9780826348357
Related ISBN(s)
9780826348340
MARC Record
OCLC
759158348
Pages
326
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No