The Pedagogy of Evangelization in the New World (16th and 17th Centuries)
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 4582
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Interests: education and citizenship in the global era; education for sustainability; gender equality and women's empowerment (goal 5: sustainable development objectives); curricular inclusion of social problems in education; anthropology and teaching of the social and human sciences; language and literature didactics; mixed methods research
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Dear Colleagues,
The discovery of America by Europeans in the late fifteenth century motivated the debate on the effectiveness of traditional evangelization methodologies in the establishment of a new religious, cultural, and political order. The incorporation of 'strange peoples' into the orb of Latin Christianity led to the appearance of varied and complex rhetorical methodologies that went through the defense of the sacred word as the only mode of conversion, by the adaptation of preaching techniques to the presupposed neophyte abilities, and by the imbrication and recognition of the native cultural experience in the European rhetorical principles. From this last paradigm, the discovery of different forms of transmission of native knowledge through figurative resources favored the specific updating of the visual mnemonic functions of classical European rhetoric. The didactic–iconographic persuasive practice would thus transcend the evangelizing limits to be proposed as a useful political and propaganda mechanism in the creation of new sociocultural imaginaries and narratives about the New World.
In this Special Issue, we intend to delve into the paradigms of these new forms of evangelization, paying special attention to the functions of the image as a persuasive and mnemonic resource in colonial America of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. From this perspective, it is proposed to analyze, among others, the Franciscan contributions of Pedro de Gante, Diego Valadés and Bernardino de Sahagún, or the natives of Guamán Poma de Ayala, in order to deconstruct the narrative mechanisms of the didactic or emblematic image as a cultural practice in new contexts of evangelization.
Dr. Delfín Ortega-SánchezGuest Editor
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Keywords
- pedagogy
- evangelization
- word and image
- rhetoric
- new world
- artificial memory
