Description: Guardians of Idolatry tells a compelling story of the robust presence of a unique form of Postclassic Mesoamerican ritual knowledge, fully operative one hundred years after the incursion of Christianity in south Central Mexico.
Brief description:
Viviana Díaz Balsera is Professor of Spanish at the University of Miami and the author of The Pyramid under the Cross: Franciscan Discourses of Evangelization and the Nahua Christian Subject in Sixteenth-Century Mexico.
Review Quotes:
"In Guardians of Idolatry Viviana Díaz Balsera opens a new and unique window on the spirituality of the natives of Central Mexico before and after the conquest. This highly readable and engaging study will be of great value for a wide range of scholars. A significant accomplishment."--John F. Schwaller, author of The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America: From Conquest to Revolution and Beyond