The Transatlantic Las Casas

Historical Trajectories, Indigenous Cultures, Scholastic Thought, and Reception in History
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-42514-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 198, 526 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1032 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

The Transatlantic Las Casas demonstrates the vitality of Lascasian studies. An impressive ensemble of scholars spanning the fields of Latin American studies, philosophy, theology, anthropology, law, literary criticism, and ethnohistory illuminate the complex intellectual web surrounding the controversial figure of Bartolomé de las Casas.

This volume offers sophisticated explorations of colonial Latin American and early modern Iberian studies by Laura Ammon, Thomas Eggensperger, O.P., Natsuko Matsumori, Timothy A. McCallister, Luis Mora Rodríguez, David Thomas Orique, O.P., María Cristina Ríos Espinosa, Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Mario Ruíz Sotelo, Frauke Sachse, Rubén A. Sánchez-Godoy, John F. Schwaller, Garry Sparks, Vanina M. Teglia, Dwight E.R. TenHuisen, Paola Uparela, Ramón Darío Valdivia Giménez, Andrew L. Wilson, and Victor Zorrilla.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roldán-Figueroa, Rady

Orique O P, David T

Weitere Mitwirkende

Orique, O.P., David T.

Roldán-Figueroa, Rady

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Über Autor(innen)

Rady Roldán-Figueroa (Th.D., Boston University) is Associate Professor at Boston University. He is the author of The Ascetic Spirituality of Juan de Avila (1499–1569) (Brill, 2010), and The Martyrs of Japan: Publication History and Catholic Missions in the Spanish World (Spain, New Spain, and the Philippines, 1597–1700) (Brill, 2021).

David Thomas Orique, O.P. (Ph.D., University of Oregon) is Professor at Providence College. He is the author of The Unheard Voice of Law from the Often-heard Text: A New Rendition of Bartolomé de Las Casas’s ‘Brevísima relación de la destruición de las Indias’ (Routledge, 2021), and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity (2019).