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- Title
"TEARS OF THE INDIANS" OR SUPERFICIAL CONVERSION? JOSÉ DE ACOSTA, THE BLACK LEGEND, AND SPANISH EVANGELIZATION IN THE NEW WORLD.
- Authors
MURRY, GREGORY
- Abstract
The author analyzes the changing English perceptions of Spanish evangelization in the Americas, arguing that José de Acosta's work marked a fundamental shift in English attitudes toward Catholic claims of native conversions. Whereas the earliest Black Legend stories had emphasized Spanish rapacity and native rejection of Christianity, later English controversialists seized on Acosta's admissions of superficial conversions to argue that Spaniards had succeeded in partial conversions only because Catholicism was marked by the same forms of idolatry and superstition as native religions.
- Subjects
BLACK Legend (Spanish history); ACOSTA, Jose de, 1540-1600; CONVERSION to Christianity; LATIN American history -- To 1600; STEREOTYPES; ANTI-Spanish propaganda; BRITISH propaganda; ANTI-Catholicism; CASAS, Bartolome de las, 1474-1566; HISTORY
- Publication
Catholic Historical Review, 2013, Vol 99, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
0008-8080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cat.2013.0017