The Continuity of Sacred Urban Open Space: Facilitating the Indian Conversion to Catholicism in Mesoamerica.

During the sixteenth century, the Spanish crown sent Mendicant friars of the Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian monastic orders to evangelize and convert the indigenous people of America. With huge populations to convert, spread over an extremely vast territory, a limited number of friars had to...

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Published in:	Religion & the Arts Vol. 18; no. 1/2; pp. 61 - 87
Main Author:	Wagner, E. Logan
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2014
Subjects:	Conversion to Christianity Sacred space Public spaces Religion of Indigenous peoples of the Americas Christianity & Indigenous peoples Gante, Pedro de, 1486-1572 Catholic Church Mesoamerican region Latin America
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