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Catholicism Beyond Europe Dr Julia McClure
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The Geometry of World Religions
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The beginning of Catholicism in Europe
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Islam in Europe
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Legends of Catholicism Outside Europe 1. Prester John
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Legends of Catholicism Outside Europe 2. Candelaria de Tenerife
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Spanish Empire at its height
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Exporting European ideas? Spaces of utopia?
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Vasco de Quiroga and the Hospitals of Santa Fe
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Religion and Empire
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Sacred empires
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Rituals of empire: Arrival of the ‘Twelve Franciscan Apostles’ 1524 Mural from Parish church in Ozumba https://eccechristianus.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/las-doce-antorchas-en-la-fundacion-de-mexico-llamado-en-el-siglo-xvi-como-nueva-espana/
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Franciscan New World 1485 / 1491 Columbus visits La Rábida 1493 Franciscans arrive in Hispaniola 1505 First Franciscan province in Americas est. 1510 Fray Gerónimo de Aguilar helps est. first permanent Spanish settlement in mainland America, in Santa María la Antigua del Darién 1513 Juan de Quevedo becomes first bishop of mainland America 1524 Arrival of ‘Doce apóstoles’ in Mexico 1525 Huejoztingo, 1531 Huaquechula, 1532 Tlalmanalco, monasteries est. 1553 est. In Peru 1565 est. In Ecuador 1575 est. In Venezuela 1769-1833 Franciscan missions in Alta California
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Spaces of mission: The Franciscan New World Texcoco Cathedral, Mexico, on site of 16 th century Franciscan monastery, rebuilt in 1664 San Martin Caballero Huaquechula, Mexico, 1532 Tlaxcala Cathedral, Mexico, Franciscan convent constructed 1530-1536
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Andrés de San Miguel (1577-1644) Mexico City, 1638
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Fray Junípero Serra (1713-1784)
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California Missions (1769-1833)
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Debates over baptismal practises continued in the Americas
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Inquisition Diego de Landa (auto de Fe, Mani, 1562)
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Conversion as conflict? Tlaxcala Codex, Historia de Tlaxcala, Diego Muñoz Camargo (c. 1585), Folio 241v
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Cultural Destruction Tlaxcala Codex, Historia de Tlaxcala, Diego Muñoz Camargo (c. 1585), Folio 242r
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(Simple) Overview of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
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A More Complex Picture Politically
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An even more complex picture religiously Aztec Deities Maya Deities Zapotec Deities Chichimeca Deities
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Cultural Encounter &Ethnography Bernardino da Sahágun: The Florentine Codex http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0001502569#pag e/1/mode/thumb
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Hybridity San Jacinto, San Angel, Mexico City
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Adaptation, Acculturation or Appropriation? Convent of San Augustin in Acolman, Mexico Mesoamerican world-tree, codex Vindobonensis c. 1500
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Multidirectional cultural fusion? Franciscan Triptych, Institution of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, 16th century (NY MET)
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Global Catholicism in Europe
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New Mission History: Spaces of Adaptation Erick Langer and Robert H. Jackson eds, The New Latin American Mission History (Nebraska, 1995) James Saeger, The Chaco Mission Frontier: The Guaycurúan Experience (Tucson, 2000) Susan Deeds, ‘Review: Pushing the Borders of Latin American Mission History’, Latin American Research Review 39, no. 2 (2004), pp. 211-220.
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Jesuit Reductions 1540 Order Founded c. 1570 Arrived in America 17 th &18 th century established ‘Indian Reductions’ in ‘Paraguay’ 1767 expulsion of the Jesuits from America 1773 suppression of Order elsewhere
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Paraguay: The Jesuit State This is a map from 1732 depicting Paraguay and Chiquitos with the missions San Xavier (S. Xavier), Concepción (Concepc.), San Rafael de Velasco (S. Raphael), San Miguel de Velasco (S. Miguel), San José de Chiquitos (San Joseph) and San Juan Bautista (S. Juan).
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Jesuit Ethnography?
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Religion: blurring the boundaries Indigenous wooden casket with marquetry. 17th CE. Made by a local native artist from Chaco (frontier region between Paraguay and Bolivia). It shows two Chaco natives preventing a Spanish settler to enter the interior of the Jesuit mission (Museo Charcas, Bolivia)
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Indigenous Catholicism: Our Lady of Guadalupe
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Indigenous Catholicism: Mariology Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary of La Naval de Manila
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‘Local’ Saints: Catarina de San Juan
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Beyond the Americas…
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Kinetic Catholicism
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Friar Andres de Urdaneta (Augustinian)
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Giovanni Filippo di Marini, Historia et Relatione del Tunchino e del Giappone
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The Jesuits in China Assimilation
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Resistance
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Religion and Global Knowledge Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718) Discovery and exploitation of mines of New Mexico by Antonio de Espejo, Spanish explorer, in 1582 (Espejo was given permission to spread the gospels in the new provinces by Father Augustin Rys), Kharbine-Tapabor / The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY
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Global Catholicism Today
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Conclusion Disrupting the familiar geographies of Catholicism ‘Christianization’?: Adaptation, Acculturation or Appropriation? Hybridity? Exporting Catholicism? Global Catholicism
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