Conflict and Conversion in Sixteenth Century Central Mexico

Concerns over native resistance to evangelization on and beyond the Chichimeca frontier (the frontier between sedentary and nomadic natives) prompted the Augustinian missionaries to use graphic visual images of hell to convince natives to embrace the new faith. The Augustinians believed that they were in a war against Satan.

General Editor's Preface List of Tables, Figures and Map Preface: Genesis of a Question and Interpretation Acknowledgement
1. Introduction
2. Setting the Stage: Native Peoples and Augustinian Missions in Central Mexico and Beyond the Chichimeca Frontier
3. The War against Satan and Sin: The Open Chapel Murals of San Nicolas Tolentino and Santa Maria Xoxoteco
4. The Holy War against the Chichimecas: The Ixmiquilpan Church Mural Series
5. Beyond the Chichimeca Frontier: Augustinian Evangelization of the Sierra Gorda, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
6. Conclusion Glossary Selected Bibliography Index