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CHRISTIANITY AND CIVILITY
Struggles in the implemenation of Christianity
Spaniards start to question the capacity of the Indians to understand and assimilate their teaching
Own Spaniards perspective
Of course, Spaniards where highly influenced by their own conceptions, on how to treat the Indians
According to the Spaniards, Indians costumes and beliefs were highly influenced by the devil
Even so, they saw Indians as people who needed to be ruled by the others
Since Indians possed of sacred texts and sacred symbols, it was difficult for them to easily detach from their cultural values
Therefore to better convert Indians into Christianity, it was decided to learn about their culture and their language
Focus & Objectives
In a beginning the colonizers intentions, were good. Since for them comverting people into christinaity has of benefit for others
However as time passed on colonizers did no longer had a peaceful approach
Financial support from the crown
Preaching, catechizing and the founding of schools for evangelization
The implementation of priests and friers in Latin America
Creation of programes for the evangelization
Consequences and Effects
In the implementation of Christinaity, colonizers started to think of the indians as "inconstant creature with an inherent inclination to vice."
They started to see the Indians culture as a threat to Christianity
Therefore colonizers decided to burn sacred texts and sacred pictures
Elimination of Indians Culture
From the Christians's perspective Indians clothes were one of the things which were seen as inappropriate
Clothes such as the "maxtlatl" or "loincloth", were seen as inadequate and uncivilized, therefore they were over time replaced by trousers
Other clothes such as women's traditional clothing,
were seen as more modest, and were allowed to survive.
Major Changes in the indigenous societies
With the evangelization process, the colonizers did not only affect the Indian's culture, but their social habits as well.
Even so, since their culture was so connected with their social habits and life habits, it ended up becoming difficult for the colonizers to properly determine which things to abolish and which not to do so.
