...Sarah Cline Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Ordinances of Fray Alonso de Molina, OFM . Translated and edited by Sell Barry D. . Contributions by Taylor Larissa and Lavrin Asunción . Franciscan Publications in Nahuatl Series, no. 2 . Berkeley...

...Winthrop Wright Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans . By Von Germeten Nicole . Foreword by Angell Stephen W. and Pinn Anthony B. . The History of African-American Religions . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2006 . Map...

...William F. Connell The work is strongest when conveying the stated function of confraternities and communicating why Indigenous peoples used them, arguing that the benefits that confraternities made available to communities and their members were desirable and necessary. Confraternities provided...

... a consensus of ideas rather than overwhelmingly pointing to new trends or lines of interpretation, even when the material has been modified or amended. The book constitutes a decidedly useful starting point for readers who want to explore the rich and varied locales and worldviews that confraternities...

...James S. Amelang Sacred Charity: Confraternities and Social Welfare in Spain, 1400–1700 . By Flynn Maureen . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1989 . Map. Chart. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index , x , 200 pp. Cloth . Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press 1991...

... ) for the bishop of São Paulo, delivered letters to 17 church leaders in the city. Twelve confraternity helmsmen, the parish priests of Sé, Brás, and Consolação, and the directors of two monastic communities in the provincial capital received dispatches officially notifying them that the Brotherhood of Saint...

... by indigenous peoples of this vecino (resident) civic identity facilitated the persistence of indigenous societies. The use of colonial buildings and institutions, such as churches and confraternities, enabled the creation of fictive kinship and other networks that led to “a sense of community among...

... within the Christian context. The relatively small numbers of Spanish religious meant that Indian men could take leadership roles in the religious sphere, functioning as de facto priests in some situations, such as giving last rites to dying Indians. The founding of lay confraternities also presented...

... owned large haciendas, sugar or flour mills, ranches and smaller plots of land. Others, such as nunneries and many confraternities, had invested largely in urban real estate. 5 In all instances, much capital had been diverted towards lending purposes, since this type of investment, if efficiently...

... takes on a herculean task to trace African social networks formulated on the slave ships and solidified via cultural and sociopolitical organizations such as confraternities, nations, and the militia to the battlefield brought forward by the long fight for Uruguayan independence. His diverse array...

... argues that this performance by 11 Afro-Mexican women (whom Valerio understands as members of a confraternity) constituted both the calculated “creolization” of Afro-Mexican women and the continuity of officially proscribed forms of Black festival culture—a compelling argument that rejects both...

... of the same advocation, to which believers channeled their devotion individually or in confraternities. Paintings, meanwhile, were not autonomous agents but representations of the power of statues. A bit more background about these nested yet distinct devotional objects would enrich the book. How did...

... complex economies and the development of indigenous communities characterized by communal land tenure, village governments, and confraternities. Dehouve ends with a short chapter on rituals, discussing the process of evangelization and the survival of indigenous beliefs and rites. The value...

..., and internal divisions), confraternities, popular religiosity, and the career of Bishop Manuel Abad y Queipo. Through this topical presentation, various themes emerge. The assault on baroque Catholicism was waged through the secularization of regular parishes, a reformed seminary curriculum...

... population. A short time later the Church made a further gesture toward incorporating Negroes into the spiritual fold by creating a Negro religious confraternity to run this hospital. In subsequent years many wealthy Sevillians helped to maintain Our Lady of the Angels; a notable donor was the Duke of Medina...

... original contributions in this book is the study of the unceasing musical activity in the eight Indian parishes surrounding Cuzco Cathedral and in the doctrinas de indios or Indian rural parishes of the Cuzco diocese. Numerous confraternities established in the parishes fostered performances...

... Indigenous areas. Through mutual aid societies, lay confraternities, neighborhood organizations, and militant labor federations, Indigenous people and other working-class paceños demanded infrastructure for their neighborhoods and pushed for full social and political rights. In the process of telling...

... argues that the identities of Mexico City's Indigenous residents were formed, in part, through membership in the república de indios and their status as tributaries. Confraternities served as vital organizations by which Afro-Mexicans fostered community cohesion and expressed their religious devotion...

... the degree to which belief in sacred immanence and in making the church and the liturgy as splendid as possible continued to inform peoples’ bequests, and chapter 9 considers changing patterns of charitable donations and changing conceptions of what membership in a confraternity meant. Larkin manipulates...

... by ecclesiastics, laymen and religious confraternities lay behind the concerted effort undertaken by the Spanish crown after 1750 to develop a system of poor relief designed to limit the distribution of alms to the deserving poor, to impose severe restrictions upon mendicity and to establish institutions...