Catholic Colonialism : A Parish History of Guatemala, 1524–1821
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Latin American Studies
ISBN-10
0521527120
ISBN-13
9780521527125
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 4th, 2002
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
358 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.60 x 2.00 cms
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South AmericaRoman Catholicism, Roman Catholic ChurchRoman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
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The parish was the fundamental ecclesiastical institution brought by Spain to the New World, and perhaps even the principal instrument of empire. This pioneering study traces the origins and development of the parishes of a single Central American diocese from conquest to independence.
The parish was the fundamental ecclesiastical institution brought by Spain to the New World, and perhaps even the principal instrument of empire. This pioneering study traces the origins and development of the parishes of a single Central American diocese from conquest to independence. Drawing widely on Guatemalan archive sources, it presents a detailed picture of the colonial church at parish level. During the eighteenth century almost all regular parishes were secularized. This brought to an end the ecclesiastical state within a state: a republic of priests and Indians. Although the Crown had decreed that the Christian faith had to be presented in its purest form, uncontaminated by worldly influences, a system of vested interests sprang up with the first conversions. Viewed in the most prosaic terms, her parochial incomes made the church the greatest business of the colonial period.
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