TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tene,Ran
TI  - Changes in ethical worldviews of Spanish missionaries in Mexico: an ethical transition from sight to touch in the 16th and 17th centuries 
T2  - European expansion and indigenous response,
SN  - 9789004284555
AV  - BV2835.3 .T46 2015
U1  - 266/.27209031 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Torquemada, Juan de,
KW  - Motolinía, Toribio,
KW  - Missions
KW  - Mexico
KW  - History
KW  - Conversion
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Psychology, Religious
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- From Sight to Touch in the Ethical Narrative -- Two Ethical Systems: Example and Mystery -- Cruelty -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - \'Conversion\' is a basic religious concept, which has manifold implications for our everyday lives. Ran Tene's Changes in Ethical Worldviews of Spanish Missionaries in Mexico utilizes a cross-disciplinary methodology in which the fields of Philosophy, History, and Literary Studies are drawn upon to analyze conversion. He focuses on two moments in Spanish writing about Mexican missions, the early to mid-sixteenth century writings of the Spanish missionaries to Mexico and the early seventeenth century manuscripts of the author/copyist Fray Juan de Torquemada. The analysis exposes changes in worldviews - including the concepts of identity, ownership, and cruelty - through missionary eyes. It suggests two theoretical models - the vision model and the model of touch - to describe these changes, which are manifested in the missionary project and in the texts that it (re)produced
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004284555
ER  -