Building colonial cities of God : mendicant orders and urban culture in New Spain /

This book tracks New Spain's mendicant orders past their so-called golden age of missions into the ensuing centuries and demonstrates that they had equally crucial roles in what Melvin terms the "spiritual consolidation" of cities. Beginning in the late sixteenth century, cities becam...

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Main Author: Melvin, Karen
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Language:English
Published: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2012
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505 0 |a List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Titles and Names; Introduction; Part One: Cities, Orders, Ministries; 1. Ordering Cities: Urban Convents and Friars, 1570-1808; 2. Distinguishing Habits: Mendicant Identities and Institutes; 3. Serving Cities: Orders and Their Urban Ministries; Part Two: Urban Catholicism; 4. Defining Religions: Mendicant Connections and Disconnections in Urban Society; 5. Loving Complaints: Orders and the Making of Urban Culture; Conclusion; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index. 
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