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JIMENEZ GOMEZ, Ismael. “A estos ídolos les levantaban humilladeros”. Rhetoric of the Evil in the Work by Andrés Pérez de Ribas (1645). Estud. hist. novohisp [online]. 2024, n.71, pp.149-177.  Epub 22-Out-2024. ISSN 2448-6922.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24486922e.2024.71.77811.

This article seeks to analyze the Jesuit rhetoric in the work Historia de los trivmphos de nuestra santa fee entre gentes las más bárbaras y fieras del nueuo orbe, written by the Cordovan Andrés Pérez de Ribas and published in 1645, highlighting the issues related to the survival of idolatry and the influence of the devil on the Indians who inhabited the northern missions. Although the chronicle of this Jesuit has been analyzed from different historiographical perspectives, we intend to trace those relevant testimonies that describe the conception that the members of the Ignatian society held about those practices and local conceptions of the world contrary to the Christian faith, highlighting the importance and the role that the missionary writing took for the conformation and diffusion of these narratives. In this sense, it is proposed to focus on the so-called “Jesuit knowledge”, emphasizing the rhetorical corpus related to the apologetic purposes of the conversion of the gentiles. To achieve the proposed objective, the article is divided into the following sections: the establishment of the Jesuit missions in the province of Sinaloa, the life and trajectory of the Jesuit Pérez de Ribas, and the rhetoric of “evil” present in his written work.

Palavras-chave : mission; Jesuits; idolatry; devil; rhetoric.

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