Abstract

AVILA AVILA, Víctor Manuel  and  LOPEZ RIDAURA, Cecilia. Idolatry in the Manual de ministros de indios of Jacinto de la Serna. Estud. hist. novohisp [online]. 2022, n.66, pp.185-212.  Epub June 06, 2022. ISSN 2448-6922.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24486922e.2022.66.77697.

In this work we will address the concept of idolatry used by the secular religious Jacinto de la Serna in his Manual de ministros de indios para el conocimiento de sus idolatrías y extirpación de ellas, written in the second half of the seventeenth century in New Spain. The concept of idolatry regained great strength in that century and one of the most representative authors of this issue was Jacinto de la Serna. We consider that this manual, despite being widely used, has not been attend ed with the depth it deserves. This research is based on various sources, including documents from the Archivo General de la Nación the Archivo General de Indias, and the Archivo del Cabildo Catedral Metropolitano de México. We also reviewed some manuscripts, books from the seventeenth century and revised the historiography to carry out this work.

Keywords : Indios; idolatry; Evangelization; disease; crime.