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Sacred Habitat
2023
Overview
Known as a time of revolutions in science, the early modern era
in Europe was characterized by the emergence of new disciplines and
ways of thinking. Taking this conceit a step further, Sacred
Habitat shows how Spanish friars and missionaries used new
scholarly approaches, methods, and empirical data from their
studies of ecology to promote Catholic goals and incorporate
American nature into centuries-old church traditions.
Ran Segev examines the interrelated connections between
Catholicism and geography, cosmography, and natural history-fields
of study that gained particular prominence during the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries-and shows how these new bodies of knowledge
provided innovative ways of conceptualizing and transmitting
religious ideologies in the post-Reformation era. Weaving together
historical narratives on Spain and its colonies with scholarship on
the Catholic Reformation, Atlantic science, and environmental
history, Segev contends that knowledge about American nature
allowed pious Catholics to reconnect with their religious
traditions and enabled them to apply their beliefs to a foreign
land.
Sacred Habitat presents a fresh perspective on Catholic
renewal. Scholars of religion and historians of Spain, colonial
Latin America, and early modern science will welcome this
provocative intervention in the history of empire, science,
knowledge, and early modern Catholicism.
Publisher
Penn State University Press,Pennsylvania State University Press
Subject
/ Catholic Church-Latin America-History-16th century
/ Catholic Church-Latin America-History-17th century
/ Catholic Church-Spain-History-16th century
/ Catholic Church-Spain-History-17th century
/ Christianity and geography-Latin America-History-16th century
/ Christianity and geography-Latin America-History-17th century
/ Cosmography-History-16th century
/ Cosmography-History-17th century
/ Europe
/ HISTORY
/ Modern
/ Natural history-Latin America-History-16th century
/ Natural history-Latin America-History-17th century
/ Natural history-Religious aspects-Catholic Church-History-16th century
/ Natural history-Religious aspects-Catholic Church-History-17th century
/ RELIGION
/ Spain
ISBN
0271095334, 9780271095332, 0271096497, 9780271096490
