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...Charles E. Dibble Christo-Paganism. A Study of Mexican Religious Syncretism . By Madsen William . New Orleans , 1957 . Tulane University . Middle American Research Institute. (Preprint from Publication 19, pp. 105-180.) Illustration. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 105 - 180...

...James Lockhart Todos Santos in Rural Tlaxcala: A Syncretic, Expressive, and Symbolic Analysis of the Cult of the Dead . By Nutini Hugo G. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1988 . Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 471 . Cloth . $75.00...

... This thin work seems to study the Mexican baroque literature of Sor Juana, Sigüenza y Góngora, and others in terms of a syncretistic vision. This syncretism was implanted in the New World during the conquest, both spiritual and military, as Europeans attempted to place the newly discovered reality...

... , $34.95 . Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 This grand and ambitious book proposes comparative analysis of religious and popular devotions to syncretic goddess figures in Europe and the Americas, including the Caribbean. Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba focuses on “the Black Madonna...

...-Catholic syncreticism” (p. 50). These were layered over a Portuguese Catholicism that was itself already a syncretic faith. Her use of syncretism as a shaping concept implies a macro perspective on the historical problem: it is the culture that is syncretic. A perspective that started from the point...

... 1987 In describing folk Catholicism, ethnographers have been obsessed with idols behind altars. Ingham’s book is a physic to this preoccupation. His central thesis is that rather than being a thin veneer over indigenous religion, the syncretism of Mexican folk Catholicism is more European than one...

... of efficacy. Contemporary Mexican folk beliefs constitute the best of both Aztec and European heritages that work—a syncretism. This syncretism is a product of mestizoness, in which the half-Indian, half-Spaniard tried to accommodate both cultures—a concept that politically isn’t very convincing...

... Catholicism in the Americas. Part 3 examines patterns of postconquest religious syncretism in the three core areas. J. Jorge Klor de Alva explores the Nahuatization of Christianity, and Louise M. Burkhart analyzes the early history of the cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the roles of its Indian...

... syncretism, an adoption and adaptation of pre-Hispanic religious symbols, beliefs, and practices to the new Christian order. They differed widely, however, in their methodology. The Franciscans sought to retain what was “innocent” in such practices as songs and dances. Despite official opposition...

... in the seventies, Stam’s point about syncretism and about class presumptions (how many Brazilians would know or understand the lyrics to songs in English?) are made clear. Tropical Multiculturalism focuses on filmic representations, and from this perspective the argument that multiculturalism is a “pan...

... new, revised apparition story reflected the nationalist aspiration of integrating all Cubans, regardless of race, in the struggle against Spain. Appropriately, the rowboat’s crew now included a black, a white, and a mulatto; moreover, they all shared the name Juan. For practitioners of the syncretic...

... syncretism as a bulwark against the institutional church, while Gerald F. Murray portrays Haitian “voodoo” as a depository of Catholic orthodoxy. Diana Brown and Chester E. Gabriel are not at all at odds: she depicts Afro-Brazilian Umbanda as societally “integrative,” and he concludes that spiritism...

... and missionaries; (c) the resultant syncretism, or amalgamation, of the native and Christian faiths; (d) Mexico’s religion of the future: the Christian church is to take into consideration all that is good in the native religions and character, all that is noble, true, and beautiful; and, building...

... glimpses of the possible specificity of local patterns, but leaves them undiscussed. Nineteenth-century Antioquia may well have been as profoundly European as Arango’s treatment suggests, but the possibilities of religious syncretism and local idiosyncrasy remain wholly unconsidered. Part of the difficulty...

... Paintings by the Cuzco School of indigenous and mestizo artists show the cultural syncretism that followed the Spanish conquest of Peru, as art historian Carol Damian skillfully demonstrates in this book. By the seventeenth century, the artists produced a wide variety of paintings resembling European works...

..., to be further hybridized in Brazil with African (themselves syncretic) and Indian myths and traditions. Judaism was also syncretic in Brazil. Edenization of New World nature was accompanied by projection onto an American backcloth of European mythology about monsters and demonization of inhabitants and fauna...

... problems reconciling Christianity with African religions. Gordon argues that many slaves developed a syncretic religion made up of elements of African religions as well as of Christianity. She also maintains that by the time of full emancipation in 1838, the majority of converted slaves had adopted a form...

... constructed by outsiders to them. Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert writes of the cinematic fascination with Haitian zombies as “tropes that encapsulate certain ways of looking at the cultural and religious syncretism of the African-Caribbean as exotic, foreign, ‘unknowable,’ and ultimately expendable” (p. 47). Alan...

... This book is mainly a description of la Gran Nicoya and its people during the Spanish conquest. Its main objective is to demonstrate that change and destruction occurred with the conquest and colonization of Gran Nicoya. Some cultural elements were destroyed but were reelaborated through syncretism...

... of this community—marriage and kinship, inheritance, distribution of political power, and the like. Such a close and nuanced reading leads him to argue that “the colonial period witnessed a process more complex than mere syncretism, with two cultural systems remaining distinguishable from each other while...