scholarly journals Exclusive Monotheism and Sahagún’s Mission: The Problem of Universals in the First Book of the Florentine Codex

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
Josefrayn Sanchez-Perry
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
Central Mexico ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
Bernardino De Sahagun ◽  
Florentine Codex

This article outlines the missionary methods of the Franciscan Bernardino de Sahagún, his interaction with Nahua communities in central Mexico, and the production of a text called the Florentine Codex. This article argues that the philosophical problem of universals, whether “common natures” existed and whether they existed across all cultures, influenced iconoclastic arguments about Nahua gods and idolatry. Focusing on the Florentine Codex Book 1 and its Appendix, containing a description of Nahua gods and their refutation, the article establishes how Sahagún and his team contended with the concept of universals as shaped by Nahua history and religion. This article presents the Florentine Codex Book 1 as a case study that points to larger patterns in the Christian religion, its need for mission, and its construal of true and false religion.

scholarly journals Estimating the Rainwater Potential per Household in an Urban Area: Case Study in Central Mexico

Water ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 4622-4637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Lizárraga-Mendiola ◽  
Gabriela Vázquez-Rodríguez ◽  
Alberto Blanco-Piñón ◽  
Yamile Rangel-Martínez ◽  
María González-Sandoval
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Central Mexico

scholarly journals Cooperation and tensions in multiethnic corporate societies using Teotihuacan, Central Mexico, as a case study

2015 ◽  
Vol 112 (30) ◽  
pp. 9210-9215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda R. Manzanilla
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Volcanic Eruptions ◽  
Cotton Cloth ◽  
Central Mexico ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
Strong Ties ◽  
The Core

In this paper, I address the case of a corporate society in Central Mexico. After volcanic eruptions triggered population displacements in the southern Basin of Mexico during the first and fourth centuries A.D., Teotihuacan became a multiethnic settlement. Groups from different backgrounds settled primarily on the periphery of the metropolis; nevertheless, around the core, intermediate elites actively fostered the movement of sumptuary goods and the arrival of workers from diverse homelands for a range of specialized tasks. Some of these skilled craftsmen acquired status and perhaps economic power as a result of the dynamic competition among neighborhoods to display the most lavish sumptuary goods, as well as to manufacture specific symbols of identity that distinguished one neighborhood from another, such as elaborate garments and headdresses. Cotton attire worn by the Teotihuacan elite may have been one of the goods that granted economic importance to neighborhood centers such as Teopancazco, a compound that displayed strong ties to the Gulf Coast where cotton cloth was made. The ruling elite controlled raw materials that came from afar whereas the intermediate elite may have been more active in providing other sumptuary goods: pigments, cosmetics, slate, greenstone, travertine, and foreign pottery. The contrast between the corporate organization at the base and top of Teotihuacan society and the exclusionary organization of the neighborhoods headed by the highly competitive intermediate elite introduced tensions that set the stage for Teotihuacan’s collapse.

scholarly journals Um franciscano no Novo Mundo: frei Bernardino de Sahagún e sua Historia General de las cosas de Nueva España

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Márcia Helena Alvim
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
Bernardino De Sahagun ◽  
Ancient Religion

Bernardino de Sahagún chegou à Nova Espanha em 1529 e permaneceu na América até sua morte, em 1590. O principal objetivo do frade era a conversão dos antigos mexicanos, e para o sucesso desta escreveu um manual no qual pretendia descrever o universo cultural pré-hispânico da Mesoamérica, para que os demais missionários pudessem averiguar a permanência da antiga religião, podendo predicar contra ela, quando necessário. Abstract Bernardino de Sahagún came to New Spain in 1529 and remained in America until his death, in 1590. Bernardino de Sahagun’s goal in New Spain was the conversion of the natives to the Christian religion. He wrote a book describing the indigenous cultural universe in order to help other missionaries to recognize the permanence of ancient religion, trying to eliminate it. Palavras-chave: Frei Bernardino de Sahagún. Historia General de las cosas de Nueva España. Missionários espanhóis. Key words: Friar Bernardino de Sahagún. Historia General de las cosas de Nueva España. Spanish missionaries.

scholarly journals Revising the Narrative of the Conquest of Mexico: Bernardino de Sahagún’s 1585 Relación de la conquista de esta Nueva España

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amber Brian
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Spanish Translation ◽  
Bernardino De Sahagun ◽  
Aztec Empire ◽  
Florentine Codex ◽  
Conquest Of Mexico

2021 represents the five-hundred-year anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire. This essay addresses the rendering of the events that culminated in the Spanish domination of that region in two texts associated with the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún (1499–1590). The first is Book Twelve of the Florentine Codex, a bilingual manuscript written collaboratively with Indigenous intellectuals in Nahuatl with a Spanish translation and accompanied by nearly two thousand illustrations that represent a third text. Completed in 1579, under increasing scrutiny by religious authorities, the manuscript was confiscated and sent to Europe, eventually coming to reside in the Medici Library in Florence. In 1585, Sahagún, authored Relación de la conquista de esta Nueva España, which sought to revise the narrative of the conquest found in Book Twelve. Sahagún’s revision reveals how the narrative of the conquest changed in the hands of the Franciscan friar as the sixteenth century drew to a close.

Interculturation: Exploring Changing Religious, Cultural, and Faith Identities in an African Context

2001 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Grenham
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
African Context ◽  
Reign Of God ◽  
Religious Cultures ◽  
Theological Concept ◽  
Religious Worldviews

Inculturation, as a theological concept, needs more understanding. An improved understanding suggests invoking the term interculturation to describe the dialogical process between Christian religion and other cultures with diverse religious worldviews. This article suggests that evangelisation and educating in faith encompasses a mutual reciprocal partnership between religious and non-religious cultures in order that the gospel can transform them to reveal God's vision for humankind. This vision is manifested for Christians in the Reign of God. The Turkana nomads of Kenya are a case study in which an exploration of religious interculturation takes place to effect significant changes in Christian and Turkana religious identity. The gospel is proclaimed through dialogue and witness that expresses itself through appropriate cultural materials that have the capacity for transcending the particularity of cultures. The article concludes with some reflections on the implications of interculturation for worldwide religious education.

Reimagining the archive as thick sound: A case study of Dhrupad from Bettiah and beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-58
Author(s):  
Sumitra Ranganathan
Keyword(s):  
Complex I ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Indian Classical Music ◽  
And Function ◽  
Archival Work

The ephemerality of music is a consuming philosophical problem; it is also a practical dilemma for archivists and researchers. For oral traditions such as Indian classical music, notations, recordings and transcriptions fail to capture much of what is communicated in musical performance, which problematizes the creation and function of archives. This article explores an approach to archiving musical practices in relation to constitutive processes of emplacement, a complex I denote by the term ‘thick sound’. Using a rich and historic Dhrupad tradition as a case study, I discuss how I used documentary, material, aural, embodied and sensory performance data to construct my archive. I investigate the ways in which such documentation captures ecologies of music-making and the challenges posed for the analysis of histories of (thick) sound. I conclude by discussing the implications for theorizing archival work as active intervention, mediating relationships of past, present and future.

Florentine Codex, General History of the Things of New Spain, Fray Bernardino de Sahagun

1952 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Kubler ◽  
Arthur J. O. Anderson ◽  
Charles E. Dibble
Keyword(s):  
New Spain ◽  
Bernardino De Sahagun ◽  
History Of ◽  
Florentine Codex
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