Todas las naciones han de oyrla: Bells in the Jesuit reducciones of Early Modern Paraguay

The essay focuses on the role of bells in the Jesuit reducciones. Within the contested sound world of the mission areas, bells played an important role as their sounds formed a sense of space, regulated social life, and established an audibility of time and order. Amongst all the other European soun...

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Autore principale: Toelle, Jutta 1974- (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
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Pubblicazione: Brill 2016
In: Journal of Jesuit studies
Anno: 2016, Volume: 3, Fascicolo: 3, Pagine: 437-450
Notazioni IxTheo:CD Cristianesimo; cultura
KAH Età moderna
KBR America latina
KCA Ordine religioso
KDB Chiesa cattolica
NBH Angelologia
RJ Missione
Altre parole chiave:B Bells sounds reducciones Devil material culture Paracuaria / Paraguay Antonio Ruiz de Montoya Roque González de Santa Cruz Anton Sepp
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Riepilogo:The essay focuses on the role of bells in the Jesuit reducciones. Within the contested sound world of the mission areas, bells played an important role as their sounds formed a sense of space, regulated social life, and established an audibility of time and order. Amongst all the other European sounds which Catholic missionaries had introduced by the seventeenth century—church songs, prayers in European languages, and instrumental music—bells functioned especially well as signals of the omnipotent and omnipresent Christian God and as instruments in the establishing of acoustic hegemony. Taking the Conquista espiritual by Antonio Ruiz de Montoya (1639) as its main source, the essay points to several references to bells, as objects of veneration, as part of a flexible material culture, and, most importantly, as weapons in the daily fight with non-Christians, the devil, and demons.
ISSN:2214-1332
Comprende:In: Journal of Jesuit studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00303005