HIST 3150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Patronato Real, Tepeyac, Polytheism
27 Oct 2017
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Sept 27: the church, virgins & diabolism: main church that report to pope; also smaller factions i. e. missionaries. In colonial period there was the patronato real [royal patronage: pope gave spanish crown right to appoint all religious officials in the new world. Institutional church: hierarchical, deliver sacraments, live in cities and towns, crown as agent of papacy; church and state fused, power, piety and religious disputes, saw conquistadores as corrupt; lots of conflict between the two groups. If you needed a loan, you would go to the church] Church also cares for social services - hospitals, orphanages. Education: frontier religion fuses with indigenous beliefs syncretic religion. What they thought depended on what missionary group they were a part of. God becomes associated w cities, whiteness and europeans; devil associated with indigenous: virgin of guadalupe, mexican catholicism woman-driven; very marianist in nature, fusion of aztec goddess and mary - merging mary with tonantzin. 1531 - 10 years after arrival of cortes.
