TY  - BOOK
AU  - Melvin,Karen
TI  - Building colonial cities of God: mendicant orders and urban culture in New Spain, 1570-1800 
SN  - 9780804783255
AV  - BX2820 .M45 2012eb
U1  - 271/.06072 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Mexico
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - 17th century
KW  - fast
KW  - Friars
KW  - Colonial cities
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Institutions & Organizations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Spanish colonies
KW  - HISTORY / Latin America / South America
KW  - Church history
KW  - Spanish colony, 1540-1810
KW  - Spain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - America
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ordering cities : urban convents and friars, 1570-1810 -- Distinguishing habits : corporate and collective mendicant identities -- Serving cities : orders and their urban ministries -- Defining religions : mendicant connections and disconnections in urban society -- Loving complaints : orders and the formation of local religious culture
N2  - This book tracks New Spain's mendicant orders past their so-called golden age of missions into the ensuing centuries and demonstrates that they had equally crucial roles in what Melvin terms the ""spiritual consolidation"" of cities. Beginning in the late sixteenth century, cities became home to the majority of friars and to the orders' wealthiest houses, and mendicants became deeply embedded in urban social and cultural life. Friars ministered to urban residents of all races and social standings and engaged in traditional mendicant activities, serving as preachers, confessors, spiritual
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