CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION ix
5. PART ONE The Inquisition and the Limits of Discipline
6. ONE Colonizing Souls : The Failure o f the Indian Inquisition and the Rise of Penitential Discipline 1
7. TWO New Spain's Inquisition for Indians from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century 23
8. T H RE E The Inquisition's Repression of Curanderos 37
9. FOU R Sorcery and Eroticism in Love Magic 58
10. FIV E Visionaries and Affective Spirituality during the First Half of the Sixteenth Century 93
11. SIX Politics , Prophecy, and the Inquisition in Late Sixteenth-Century Spain 105
12. PART TWO Persecution and Persistence
13. SEVEN Family and Patronage : The Judeo-Converso Minority in Spain 125
14. E I G H T The Jew as Witch : Displaced Aggression and the Myth of the Santo Nino de La Guardia 146
15. NINE On Knowing Other People's Lives , I nquisitorially and Artistically 157
16. TEN Scorched Parchments and Tortured Memories : The "Jewishness" of the Anussim (Crypto-Jews) 176
17. ELEVEN The Inquisition and the Crypto-Jewish Community in Colonial New Spain and New Mexico 207
18. PART THREE Bibliographical Essays
19. TWELVE Recent Historiography of the Spanish Inquisition (1977-1988) : Balance and Perspective 219
20. THIRTEEN Historiography of the Mexican Inquisition : Evolution of Interpretations and Methodologies 248
21. CONTRIBUTORS 277
22. INDEX 281