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Charity for and by the Poor - Franciscan and Indigenous Confraternities in Mexico, 1527-1700 (Hardcover, Co-Publication with the American Academy of Franciscan History ed.)
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Charity for and by the Poor - Franciscan and Indigenous Confraternities in Mexico, 1527-1700 (Hardcover, Co-Publication with the American Academy of Franciscan History ed.)
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Spanish colonization of Latin America in the sixteenth century
continues to provoke scholarly debate. Spanish missionaries
employed various strategies to convert indigenous inhabitants to
the Catholic faith, including operating schools, organizing choirs,
and establishing charitable brotherhoods known as confraternities.
In Charity for and by the Poor, Laura Dierksmeier investigates how
the reformed Franciscans' commitment to evangelizing Mexico gave
rise to an extensive network of local confraternities and their
respective care institutions. She finds that these local groups
were the chief welfare providers for the indigenous people during
the early colonial period and were precursors of the modern social
security system. Dierksmeier shows how the Franciscan missionary
imperative to promote the works of mercy and charity inspired the
goals, governance, and operations of indigenous confraternities,
their hospital and orphan care, and their contributions to the
moral economy, including releasing debt prisoners and lending money
to the poor. Focusing on the inner logic and daily practices of
indigenous confraternities, Charity for and by the Poor highlights
their far-reaching effects on Mexican society. Dierksmeier argues
that confraternities are best studied within the religious
framework that established them, and she does so by analyzing
confraternity record books, lawsuits, last wills, missionary
correspondence, and parish records from archives in Mexico, Spain,
the United States, and Germany. The confraternity became an
essential institution for protecting the indigenous population
during epidemics, for integrating the various indigenous classes
from the former Aztec Empire into the emerging social order, and
for safeguarding indigenous self-governance within religious
spheres. Most notably, Franciscan-established confraternities built
social structures in which the poor were not only recipients of
assistance but also, through their voluntary participation,
self-empowered agents of community care. In this way, charity was
provided for and by the poor.
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