Entre la utilidad pública, la beneficencia y el debate: la limosna en Orizaba, 1700-1834
Barely dealt with in Mexican historiography, the history of alms illustrates the changes in religious and political culture in the late 18th and early 19th century. Traditionally, alms were used both to build churches, pay for the worship and decoration of religious images, support the clergy and fi...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Estudios de Historia Novohispana |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/23472 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://novohispana.historicas.unam.mx/index.php/ehn/article/view/23472 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | alms religious culture Catholicism liberalism secularization Orizaba 18th and 19th centuries limosna cultura religiosa catolicismo liberalismo secularización |
| Sumario: | Barely dealt with in Mexican historiography, the history of alms illustrates the changes in religious and political culture in the late 18th and early 19th century. Traditionally, alms were used both to build churches, pay for the worship and decoration of religious images, support the clergy and finance charity. For this reason, they were included under the heading of “public utility,” in other words, that of a specific community. On the border between the sacred and the profane, alms collecting was carried out in several places and by both religious and civil corporations, under the guardianship of the king. During the early decades of the 19th century, its usefulness was called into question by public opinion and it was even regarded as a rival of state tax collection. Above all, however, it was replaced by the charity work organized by the new municipal institutions. |
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