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Gloria Bodtorf Clark – Hispania, 2023
In 1623, Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, a parish priest in Atenango, Mexico, was commissioned by his archbishop to record Nahua beliefs and healing practices for the purpose of denouncing their superstitions and demonic magic. His "Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain," 1629…
Descriptors: Clergy, Catholics, American Indians, Colonialism
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Patterson, Charles – Hispania, 2013
Much of the limited scholarship dedicated to Sor Juana's "autos sacramentales" tends to separate them from the "loas" that were meant to introduce them. Critics often exalt the "loas" for the sympathy that they express for indigenous beliefs, while neglecting the "autos" or viewing them as masterful…
Descriptors: Authors, Spanish Literature, Spanish, Literary Devices