The evangelization process
Fabian Rodriguez
Religious influence
The church influenced and participated in the construction and organization of the colonial order and in daily life as it was present in all areas.
The beginning
What did the church do?
Activities
- Family, community and work relationships
- Roles and social relationships
- Behaviors
- The promulgation and application of laws
- The art, layout and architecture of the city
- Teaching, ways of living and building time
- Food and drinks
- Celebrations and holidays.
What is a religious order?
Religious orders
The first religious orders
- It favored one group (The Creole - Los Criollos) to impose themselves on another (The indigenous people) who had to be converted.
- It helped to exercise moral control over the Spaniards.
What were the first religious orders?
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Secular
Secular church vs Regular church
- represented by priests
- Not religious discipline
- Depended on the bishop and the pope.
- in charge of administrative functions (parishes and bishoprics)
- courts of Justice
- political conflicts
Not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred.
Indoctrinate the indigenous in the Catholic faith.
Regular
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- Catholic nuns and friars.
- Convents and monasteries.
- Under discipline
- Franciscans
- Dominicans
- Mercedarians
- Augustinians
Spanish Crown -Royal audience of Quito.
Church and society
- Life, disease, death and the behavior of each inhabitant of the city were matters of public domain.
- They were considered to influence the common good and were at the service of God
Beginning
The extirpation of idolatries
They did not come to understand that the veneration that the natives raised towards the forces of nature was not the same as the adoration that the Catholics professed to God
Struggle
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Despite the work to Christianize them, the indigenous people continue to worship the forces of nature such as the volcanoes, rivers mountains, but especially the sun (inti)