01:590:101 Lecture 10: 06380 - LATIN AMER_ AN INTRO - 2018-10-01

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Latin American Studies
• Course: 01:590:101
• Professor: I.Beltran

Document Summary

October 1: religion and empire (powerpoint lecture slides) conquista pac fica. Spanish conquest often rested on two major approaches military conquest and conversion, the. If the conquistadors were few, the missionaries were even fewer. Goal: convert natives from heathens to christians living in accordance with polic a cristiana, or. Polic a in 16th c. spanish designates honorable conduct befitting citizens. In the evangelization of the indios, polic a cristiana was a means to the end of conversion. Conversion was considered necessary to be incorporated in colonial society for being a member of society necessarily meant being christian. The idea of polic a was to instill ways of perceiving, experiencing, and behaving rooted in the little details of the body in its social life and in the disposition to reproduce them. In order to be placed in polic a cristiana, the indios were reorganized through a process called reducci n.