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New Mexican Spanish Religious Oratory, 1800-1900

By Steele, Thomas J.

New Mexican Spanish Religious Oratory, 1800-1900

By Steele, Thomas J.

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The sermons collected here in Spanish and English show how nineteenth-century speakers attempted to interpret and apply the Word of God to everyday lives. Steele documents the attempts of all manner of laity and clergy Mexican Franciscans and Italian Jesuits, Hispanics and Anglos, Catholics, Methodists, and Presbyterians not only to interpret scripture but also to persuade people to amend their behavior. With insightful and pithy introductions by Steele and meticulously documented throughout, this book examines the words as well as the contextualized meanings behind the words of some important New Mexican spiritual leaders. The persuasive purpose of the sermons takes the reader into the realm of "authority," quite a trek for the twentieth-century reader more accustomed to the religion of comfort. Steele invites modern readers to reinvent themselves, to become, vicariously, believers: to listen with one-hundred-year-old ears.
Product details
Number of Pages:
229
Release Date:
1997-05-01
Publication Date:
1997-05-01
Publisher:
University of New Mexico Press
Languages:
Published: English, Published: Spanish, Original: Spanish
ISBN10:
0826317685
Weight:
544 g
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