Courting Catholicism

Nahua Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Mexico City

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2736070
AutoresJonathan Truitt, Jonathan Glenn Truitt (autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen57
Número3
Páginas415-444
Fecha de publicación2010-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnohistory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00141801-2010-004
OpenAlexW2008579574
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7

Using Spanish- and Nahuatl-language sources, this article examines the interaction of Nahua women in Mexico City with the Catholic Church. By examining Nahua women's role in colonial Christianity-their religiosity (as admired by European and indigenous chroniclers), responsibilities in convents, and participation in religious brotherhoods and theatrical performances-their influence in their society becomes apparent. Nahua women's religious responsibilities in Mexico City lay between the officially recognized positions of men in the public arena and women's private responsibilities in the home. This differed from the acknowledged authority women possessed during the precontact period. Though Nahua women suffered a loss of officially sanctioned power, they managed to create other opportunities that empowered them during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Ancient history · Archaeology · Christianity · Colonialism · Ethnology · Indigenous · Nahuatl · Political science · Power (physics · Religiosity · Sociology · Archaeology and Natural History · Early Modern Women Writers · Gender Studies · History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Religious studies