“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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2015]
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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
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| 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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