Discourses on survival and the fight against religion transgression in the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos (Upper Peru, 1691-1720)
Abstract
The objective of this article is to analyze the discursive character of the phenomenon of religion transgression in the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos, contained in the letters annuities of the Jesuit province of Paraguay, during its first decades of existence (1691-1720), emphasizing the sin of idolatry and the rhetorical means necessary to confront the phenomenon of demonic influence. We consider that the analysis of this documentation at an early stage allows us to reconstruct some narratives concerning the process of indoctrination among the Indians of the Alto Peruvian frontier. We seek to explain the characteristics of an official rhetoric that formed a set of missionary knowledge and wisdom that legitimized the Jesuit project and that were closely in tune with the political dominion exercised by the Hispanic Monarchy in its overseas territories.
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