CIDOC collection

The History of Religiosity in Latin America, c. 1830-1970

["Monograph" section]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Descriptive Summary
• Location of Originals
• Biography/History Note
• Scope and Content
• Arrangement
• Selected Search Terms
• Container List

Location of Originals

The monographs listed in this guide were filmed in the following libraries:

• Argentina
  • Archivo del Arzobispado de Córdoba, Córdoba
  • Biblioteca Nacional, Buenos Aires
  • Colegio Máximo, San Miguel
  • Colegio El Salvador, Buenos Aires
  • Nuestra Señora de Luján, Basílica Nacional, Luján
  • Seminario Conciliar, Córdoba
• Brazil
  • Private collection of Padre Jamil Nassif Abib, Rio Claro
• Chile
  • Biblioteca de la Facultad de Teología, Universidad ,Católica, Santiago
  • Fundación Missio, Santiago Seminario Pontificio, Santiago
• México
  • Colegio de México, México D.F.
  • Seminario Bautista Mexicano, Naucalpán de Juárez
  • Seminario Conciliar de México, Tlalpan
• Venezuela
  • Abadía de San José del Avila
  • Archivo Arzobispal de Mérida
  • Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas
  • Biblioteca de la Residencia de los PP. Jesuitas, San Francisco Hemeroteca Nacional, Caracas
  • Hermanitas de los Pobres
  • Sala Tulio Febres Cordero, Mérida
  • Seminario Interdiocesano de Caracas
  • Seminario San José, El Hatillo
  • Siervas del Santísimo Sacramento
  • Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Intituto de Investigaciones Históricas

Biography/History Note

This collection contains imprints of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that reflect local devotions and syncretist rituals, religious iconography and poetry, and the pastoral campaigns of the various churches and sects. These imprints had largely been neglected until the early 1960s, when Ivan Illich began to search for them and to collect them in the CIDOC Library of Cuernavaca. Notwithstanding the international efforts to catalogue unregistered imprints of the 19th and 20th centuries, a high percentage of the items in the CIDOC microfiche collection do not appear in any catalogue in the Americas or in Europe.

Scope and Content

• CIDOC Publications. Between 1966 and 1976, CIDOC published limited editions now out of print.
  • 1. Dossiers is a series of indices of public controversies in Latin America. Since January 1967, 38 volumes have been issued, ranging in length between 116 and 630 pages, each covering a single controversy about current social change in Latin America. Each volume has a bibliography comprising between 500 and 5,000 items, all filed in the CIDOC Archives now at the Colegio de México. Between 80 and 500 pages of key items about the issue are reproduced in each volume as an aid to orientation. In addition, selected documents from the files have been filmed together with some Dossiers. Vol. 38 contains an index to 10,115 persons, institutions, and serials mentioned in the preceding 37 volumes. This makes the Dossiers a unique Who's Who.
  • 2. Sondeos offers series of book-length inquiries into the study of religious phenomenology in Latin America. The series comprises 89 historical, sociological, and socio-psychological studies on the religious behaviour of specific groups, i.e., critical studies on current theological, philosophical, and literary trends in Latin America related to belief, superstition, churches, and folklore. Specialized bibliographies are also included.
  • 3. Cuadernos is a series of studies by CIDOC associates, including their working papers, the outcome of Cuernavaca meetings, and background studies used for colloquia held at CIDOC.
• Pastoral Letters. These documents are usually between 6 and 32 pages long and signed by one or several bishops. About 2,000 have been selected. Such letters were meant to be read aloud on a particular Sunday at all masses in every church of the diocese. Some are dull and moralizing, some brilliant and perceptive. Some deal with marriage, the family and education, others with the organization of a pilgrimage, indecent bathing-suits, or the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. They constitute a neglected literary genre which flourished for more than a century and was one of the last forms of literature written for public declamation. They gave poor people a formative contact with the written text. Socio-political matters of continent-wide concern as weIl as local issues are mirrored in these pastoralletters.
• Synods, councils and diocesan statutes. Rarely has an institution anywhere so strongly shaped the daily lives of a great majority of the people, as the Church did through its canonical legislation during the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in Latin America. The formal decrees of Rome and Spain and the decisions of local councils affected the behaviour of villagers through the actions of the clergy. This is the first attempt ever made to collect the records of all Councils and Synods held south of the Rio Grande since I551. The constitutions of these bishops meetings, usually approved by Rome, are the most important single source for the study of Canon Law in Latin America.
• Congresses. During the last quarter of the nineteenth century the railroad began to shorten the distances on the continent. Congresses and assemblies played a decisive role in the emergence of a wide variety of new leadership groups. During the 1950s, the airlines gave rise to a second wave of continental encounters during which key personalities of our times and their ideas first came to prominence.
• Church discipline, administration, polities and associations A great variety of devotional, doctrinal, and apologetic tracts, by-laws of lay associations, controversies on Catholic schools and seminaries, anti-Protestant invectives, shadow boxing with Freemasons, communists, labor and liberalism, clerical dissidence and disciplinary procedures, manuals on clerical etiquette, parish administration, the education of seminarians and nuns, warnings against Spiritists and Hegelians.
• Church history Out of print and rare sources, chronicles, biographies, histories of localities and institutions.
• History of religious orders and mission territories Attempts to retrace the history of mission-territory have often provided the only detailed local information concerning areas about which written material is hard to find.
• Sanctuaries, devotionals and novenas The histories of sanctuaries, the prayer books and guides used by pilgrims, the annual song books edited for the feast of the Patron Saint, preserve local traditions, rhymes, sayings, customs, iconography, and document on superstitions and syncretism.
• Social action and reform (post 1960)
• Directories, surveys and statistics
• Bibliographies and reference works

Arrangement

• CIDOC Publications : Dossiers
  • Latin America [ 1 ]
• CIDOC Publications : Sondeos
  • Latin America [ 1 ]
• CIDOC Publications : Cuadernos
  • Latin America [ 5 ]
• Individual Pastoral Letters
  • Argentina [ 11 ]
  • Bolivia [ 18 ]
  • Central America [ 1 ]
  • Chile [ 25 ]
  • Colombia [ 11 ]
  • Costa Rica [ 1 ]
  • Cuba [ 3 ]
  • Ecuador [ 6 ]
  • El Salvador [ 3 ]
  • Guatemala [ 3 ]
  • Haiti [ 5 ]
  • Honduras [ 1 ]
  • Latin America [ 7 ]
  • Mexico [ 77 ]
  • Panama [ 9 ]
  • Peru [ 45 ]
  • Puerto Rico [ 3 ]
  • Uruguay [ 4 ]
  • Venezuela [ 23 ]
• Collective Pastoral Letters
  • Argentina [ 1 ]
  • Bolivia [ 1 ]
  • Chile [ 2 ]
  • Colombia [ 2 ]
  • Costa Rica [ 1 ]
  • Cuba [ 2 ]
  • Ecuador [ 2 ]
  • El Salvador [ 1 ]
  • Guatemala [ 1 ]
  • Latin America [ 3 ]
  • Mexico [ 5 ]
  • Panama [ 1 ]
  • Paraguay [ 1 ]
  • Peru [ 3 ]
  • Venezuela [ 5 ]
• Individual Pastoral Letters from Brazil
  • Brazil [ 12 ]
• Collective Pastoral Letters from Brazil
  • Brazil [ 14 ]
• Synods, councils, and diocesan statutes
  • Argentina [ 16 ]
  • Bolivia [ 7 ]
  • Brazil [ 38 ]
  • Chile [ 31 ]
  • Colombia [ 13 ]
  • Costa Rica [ 3 ]
  • Dominican Republic [ 5 ]
  • Ecuador [ 4 ]
  • Haiti [ 3 ]
  • Honduras [ 2 ]
  • Latin America [ 14 ]
  • Mexico [ 62 ]
  • Panama [ 3 ]
  • Paraguay [ 1 ]
  • Peru [ 25 ]
  • Puerto Rico [ 1 ]
  • Uruguay [ 3 ]
  • Venezuela [ 14 ]
• Congresses
  • Argentina [ 4 ]
  • Brazil [ 41 ]
  • Central America [ 1 ]
  • Chile [ 19 ]
  • Colombia [ 5 ]
  • Cuba [ 1 ]
  • Ecuador [ 1 ]
  • El Salvador [ 1 ]
  • Haiti [ 1 ]
  • Latin America [ 17 ]
  • Mexico [ 46 ]
  • Panama [ 1 ]
  • Peru [ 6 ]
  • Puerto Rico [ 1 ]
  • Uruguay [ 1 ]
  • Venezuela [ 8 ]
• Church discipline, administration, politics and associations
  • Argentina [ 71 ]
  • Bolivia [ 6 ]
  • Brazil [ 133 ]
  • Central America [ 4 ]
  • Chile [ 84 ]
  • Colombia [ 6 ]
  • Cuba [ 1 ]
  • Dominican Republic [ 1 ]
  • Ecuador [ 3 ]
  • Guatemala [ 2 ]
  • Haiti [ 3 ]
  • Latin America [ 84 ]
  • Mexico [ 97 ]
  • Peru [ 8 ]
  • Puerto Rico [ 2 ]
  • Uruguay [ 8 ]
  • Venezuela [ 85 ]
• Church history
  • Argentina [ 76 ]
  • Bolivia [ 4 ]
  • Brazil [ 172 ]
  • Central America [ 2 ]
  • Chile [ 78 ]
  • Colombia [ 17 ]
  • Costa Rica [ 1 ]
  • Cuba [ 5 ]
  • Dominican Republic [ 4 ]
  • Ecuador [ 6 ]
  • El Salvador [ 2 ]
  • Guadeloupe [ 5 ]
  • Guatemala [ 1 ]
  • Haiti [ 3 ]
  • Latin America [ 46 ]
  • Mexico [ 226 ]
  • Panama [ 1 ]
  • Paraguay [ 3 ]
  • Peru [ 17 ]
  • Puerto Rico [ 7 ]
  • Uruguay [ 6 ]
  • Venezuela [ 89 ]
• History of religious orders and mission territories
  • Argentina [ 65 ]
  • Bolivia [ 4 ]
  • Brazil [ 148 ]
  • Caribbean [ 3 ]
  • Central America [ 7 ]
  • Chile [ 71 ]
  • Colombia [ 22 ]
  • Costa Rica [ 1 ]
  • Cuba [ 1 ]
  • Dominican Republic [ 1 ]
  • Ecuador [ 4 ]
  • Guatemala [ 2 ]
  • Haiti [ 1 ]
  • Honduras [ 1 ]
  • Latin America [ 46 ]
  • Mexico [ 90 ]
  • Paraguay [ 29 ]
  • Peru [ 23 ]
  • Puerto Rico [ 4 ]
  • Uruguay [ 9 ]
  • Venezuela [ 54 ]
• Sanctuaries, devotionals, and novenas
  • Argentina [ 53 ]
  • Brazil [ 16 ]
  • Central America [ 3 ]
  • Chile [ 13 ]
  • Colombia [ 12 ]
  • Costa Rica [ 1 ]
  • Dominican Republic [ 1 ]
  • Ecuador [ 8 ]
  • Guadeloupe [ 1 ]
  • Honduras [ 1 ]
  • Latin America [ 15 ]
  • Mexico [ 57 ]
  • Panama [ 2 ]
  • Paraguay [ 1 ]
  • Peru [ 8 ]
  • Puerto Rico [ 5 ]
  • Uruguay [ 1 ]
  • Venezuela [ 40 ]
• Social action and reform
  • Bolivia [ 2 ]
  • Brazil [ 6 ]
  • Chile [ 8 ]
  • Colombia [ 4 ]
  • El Salvador [ 1 ]
  • Haiti [ 1 ]
  • Honduras [ 1 ]
  • Latin America [ 15 ]
  • Mexico [ 8 ]
  • Panama [ 1 ]
• Directories, surveys, and statistics
  • Argentina [ 11 ]
  • Bolivia [ 8 ]
  • Brazil [ 41 ]
  • Caribbean [ 2 ]
  • Chile [ 13 ]
  • Colombia [ 10 ]
  • Cuba [ 1 ]
  • Ecuador [ 5 ]
  • El Salvador [ 1 ]
  • Haiti [ 1 ]
  • Honduras [ 6 ]
  • Latin America [ 17 ]
  • Mexico [ 28 ]
  • Panama [ 1 ]
  • Paraguay [ 1 ]
  • Peru [ 3 ]
  • Uruguay [ 3 ]
  • Venezuela [ 15 ]
• Bibliographies
  • Argentina [ 12 ]
  • Brazil [ 102 ]
  • Central America [ 1 ]
  • Chile [ 9 ]
  • Colombia [ 1 ]
  • Guadeloupe [ 1 ]
  • Haiti [ 3 ]
  • Latin America [ 24 ]
  • Mexico [ 12 ]
  • Paraguay [ 1 ]
  • Peru [ 2 ]
  • Puerto Rico [ 1 ]
  • Uruguay [ 3 ]
  • Venezuela [ 9 ]

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