The Penitente Brotherhood

Patriarchy and Hispano-Catholicism in New Mexico
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7055-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Honorable Mention for the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards for Sociology and Anthropology

The Penitente brotherhood of New Mexico soared in popularity during the early nineteenth century. Local chapters of the brotherhood, always exclusively male, met in specially constructed buildings (called moradas) to conduct their business and engaged in a variety of religious rituals, including flagellation. The traditional view, still very much accepted, is that Penitente spirituality was a continuation of pietistic practices brought to the New World from Spain by Franciscan missionaries in the sixteenth century.

In this book sociologist of religion Michael Carroll argues that the movement in factdeveloped much later. There is in fact little evidence that Hispanos in pre-1770 New Mexico were particularly religious, and indeed the usual hallmarks of popular Catholicism —such as apparitions, cults organized around miraculous images, or pilgrimage–are noticeable by their absence. Carroll traces the rise of the Penitentes to social changes, including the Bourbon reforms, that undermined patriarchal authority and thereby threatened a system that was central to the social organization of late colonial New Mexico. Once established, the Penitentes came to incorporate a number of organizational elements not found in traditional confraternities. As a result, Carroll concludes, Penitente membership facilitated the "rise of the modern" in New Mexico and—however unintentionally—made it that much easier, after the territory's annexation by the United States, for the Anglo legal system to dispossess Hispanos of their land.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carroll, Michael P

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction. Juan de Oñate's Severed Foot and Other Good Stories
Chapter 1. Penitente Historiography and Its Problems
Chapter 2. The Golden Age: Hispano Piety before 1800
Chapter 3. Awash in a (Very Small) Sea of Crimson Blood: Flagellation in Pre-Penitente New Mexico
Chapter 4. Suffering Fathers and the Crisis of Patriarchal Authority
Chapter 5. Padre Martínez of Taos and the Meaning of Discipline
Chapter 6. The Penitentes and the Rise of the Modern New Mexico
Chapter 7. Stories That Connect to Guilt and Rage
Epilogue. The Stories We Tell about Subaltern Groups
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carroll, Michael P
Michael P. Carroll is a professor of sociology at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of The Penitente Brotherhood: Patriarchy and Hispano-Catholicism in New Mexico; Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion; Veiled Threats: The Logic of Popular Catholicism in Italy; and Madonnas That Maim: Popular Catholicism in Italy since the Fifteenth Century, all published by Johns Hopkins.

Michael P. Carroll is a professor of sociology at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Madonnas that Main, Veiled Threats, and Irish Pilgrimage, all available from Johns Hopkins.