“By means of tigers”: Jaguars as Agents of Conversion in Jesuit Mission Records of Paraguay and the Moxos, 1600-1768

In the mid-1600s, the Jesuit Antonio Ruiz de Montoya reported that man-eating jaguars were helping to convert Guaraní Indians to Catholicism. This article tests his claim by aggregating multiple mentions of jaguars found in the accounts and letters of Jesuit missionaries in the reductions of Paragua...

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Main Author: Vélez, Karin Anneliese 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2015]
In: Church history
Year: 2015, Volume: 84, Issue: 4, Pages: 768-806
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ruiz de Montoya, Antonio 1585-1652 / Paraguay / Mojo / Conversion (Religion) / Jaguar / History 1600-1768
IxTheo Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBR Latin America
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
KDB Roman Catholic Church
RJ Mission; missiology
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