Framing the Sacred – The Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico Wake Paperback

Framing the Sacred – The Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico Wake Paperback

Framing the SacredThe Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico\nAuthor(s): Eleanor Wake\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806153964, 978-0806153964\nSynopsis\nChristian churches erected in Mexico during the early colonial era represented the triumph of European conquest and religious domination. Or did they? Building on recent research that questions the \""\""cultural\""\"" conquest of Mesoamerica, Eleanor Wake shows that colonial Mexican churches also reflected the beliefs of the indigenous communities that built them. European authorities failed to recognize that the meaning of the edifices they so admired was being challenged: pre-Columbian iconography integrated into Christian imagery, altars oriented toward indigenous sacred landmarks, and carefully recycled masonry. In Framing the Sacred, Wake examines how the art and architecture of Mexico's religious structures reveals the indigenous pe.

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