Religious festivities, social life and excommunication in the city of Santa Marta in the age of lights
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https://doi.org/10.5377/typ.v0i28.3032Keywords:
Religious holidays, excommunication, social life, Santa Marta, Civil and Ecclesiastical Government.Abstract
This article is oriented to examine the role that religious holidays arrived in the Iberian festive calendar, imposed since the period of the conquest and strengthened in the eighteenth century, developed in the american lands, through the advertisements reported by the Bourbon authorities by means of well-known Fiestas de Tablas. In these is defined the holidays of obligatory celebration and days of storage, similarly, it stablish the behavior of the citizens of Santa Marta, with the fulfillment of duties given their condition of catholics, apostolic and romans. In the same way, are reviewed the permanent confrontations of the civil and ecclesiastical authorities for the social and religious life control of the citizens, to the point that, Ecclesiastical Government used as pressure mechanism the excommunication to get imposed.
TEORÍA Y PRAXIS Year 14, No.28, January-May 2016, pp. 5-23
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