The Coming of the Kingdom
The Coming of the Kingdom
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USDThe Coming of the Kingdom explores the experiences of the Indigenous Muisca peoples of the New Kingdom of Granada (Colombia) during the first century of Spanish colonial rule. Focusing on colonialism, religious reform, law, language, and historical writing, Juan F. Cobo Betancourt examines the introduction and development of Christianity among the Muisca, who from the 1530s found themselves at the center of the invaders' efforts to transform them into tribute-paying Catholic subjects of the Spanish crown. The book illustrates how successive generations of missionaries and administrators approached the task of drawing the Muisca peoples to Catholicism at a time when it was undergoing profound changes, and how successive generations of the Muisca interacted with the practices and ideas that the invaders attempted to impose, variously rejecting or adopting them, transforming and translating them, and ultimately making them their own. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
- Offers the most up-to-date history in the English language of religious change in the New Kingdom of Granada
- Provides a new perspective to explore the global development of Roman Catholicism and Christianity more broadly
- Presents a new framework from which to examine the development of Spanish colonialism in Latin America
- This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
Reviews & endorsements
‘This book effectively explodes many of the preconceptions we have held regarding the administration of Indigenous people and their souls in the first century of Spanish rule in the New Kingdom of Granada. Taking a deep and critical dive into the archive, Juan Cobo Betancourt persuasively demonstrates the shortcomings of applying Peruvian and Mexican models for making sense of the vast and heterogeneous expanses of the Spanish empire.’ Joanne Rappaport, Georgetown University
‘Juan Cobo Betancourt unearths a fascinating story long buried in scattered archives. Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, this landmark work highlights how Indigenous peoples negotiated the terms of their Christianity at the margins of empire during the tumultuous first century of Spanish rule.’ Yanna Yannakakis, Emory University
Product details
December 2024Hardback
9781009314053
372 pages
236 × 158 × 26 mm
0.67kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Muisca and the problem of religion
- 2. The settlers, rescript government, and the foundations of the kingdom
- 3. The failure of colonial governance and the breaking of indigenous authority
- 4. The friends of ceremony and the introduction of reform
- 5. Language policy and legal fiction
- 6. Indigenous confraternities and the stakeholder church
- Conclusion: the coming of the Kingdom
- Works cited
- Index.
