Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: A Guide to Aztec and Catholic Beliefs and Practices

by Cheryl Claassen and Laura Ammon

Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico explores the development of religion as transferred from Spain to Tenochtitlan. The religious world of both Aztecs and Spanish Catholics at time of encounter was organized through large and small scale community, family, and personal devotions. Devotion expressed through cults was the single most salient aspect in the transfer of Catholicism to New World people. This book highlights the role that ideas such as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316518388
• ISBN13: 9781316518380
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 10.1"