Chaplains of the King in the Colonial Philippines

Archbishoprics and Unstable Authority, 1595-1653
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-88967-7
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 331 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 556 g

The first of two volumes on the archbishops and cathedral chapters of seventeenth-century Manila, this book fills a historiographical gap by examining the diocesan clergy of the Philippines’ political maneuverings. In particular, this volume studies the archbishops’ unstable authority and ecclesiastical chapters’ preeminence at this time. First, it emphasizes the need for a new paradigm of conflict-ridden Catholic evangelization——that explores the interactions and engagements of the Church’s legal agents, mainly priests, canons, and bishops, and brings their rivalries to the fore. Second, it draws attention to one of the most neglected topics in Philippine ecclesiastical history, namely the metropolitan cathedral chapters, which, far from being monolithic units at the service of their archbishops, were too highly fragmented to constitute a single power holder. This volume’s examination of these power dynamics makes it clear that history of the colonial Catholic Church cannot be separated from political history of the Philippines.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coello De La Rosa, Alexandre

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The First Years.- Chapter 3. In the Wake of the Dominicans.- Chapter 4. A Failed Attempt of Secularization.- Chapter 5. A Conciliatory Spirit.- Chapter 6. A Strengthened Chapter.- Chapter 7. The Governor’s Nemesis.- Chapter 8. The Longest Interregnum.

Über Autor(innen)

Alexandre Coello de la Rosa is Professor of Latin American History and the Philippines at the Department of Humanities of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. His main lines of research deal with historical anthropology, chronicles of the Indies, and early modern Spanish colonialism, specially focused on ecclesiastical history of the Marianas and the Philippines. He has been a visiting professor at the Universidade Federal do Grande Dourados (UFGD, Brazil), the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM, Mexico) and the Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos (IFEA, Peru). From 2020 to 2024, he was a researcher at Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain.