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In Service of God and King: Conflicts between Bourbon Reformers and the Missionaries of Santa Rosa de Ocopa in Peru, 1709-1824

Jones, Cameron D
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374072518

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2013, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, History.
This dissertation examines the evolving political, economic, and philosophical conflicts between the Franciscan missionaries based out of the College of Santa Rosa de Ocopa in Peru and the Spanish State between 1709 and 1824. The conflicts facing Ocopa were representative of a major pattern of clerical reform influenced by a new philosophy of regalism, which, inspired by the European Enlightenment’s emphasis on reason over tradition, aimed to centralize political power in the monarchical state. The Ocopa missionaries were not completely subservient agents of the government sent to exploit local labor forces to extract resources for Spain. Rather, they sought to create a spiritual utopia, as they imagined it, using State funds but being free from the Crown’s political agenda. Although Spanish regalists were pious Catholics, they sought to create a more national Church under Crown control, which involved curtailing the autonomy of religious orders like the Franciscans. The resulting tensions allowed Amerindian communities concentrated in the Ocopa missions to resist the missionaries’ cultural, political, and commercial impositions. What occurred in the missions, therefore, was a result of interactions among Franciscan missionaries, Crown officials, and indigenous peoples—each with its own discrete agenda. Untangling these competing agendas will help to reveal the dynamics of Spanish colonial aspirations along this crucial frontier zone in Peru during the Bourbon period (1700-1824).
Kenneth Andrien (Committee Co-Chair)
Stephanie Smith (Committee Chair)
Donna Guy (Committee Member)
299 p.
History; Latin American History; Latin American Studies; Religious History
Missionaries; Santa Rosa de Ocopa; Bourbon Reforms; Regalism; Rebellions; Juan Santos Atahualpa; Spain; Peru; Eighteenth Century; Enlightenment; Atlantic World; Maynas; Montana Central; Clerical Reform; Amazon; Catholic Church; Franciscans

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  • Jones, C. D. (2013). In Service of God and King: Conflicts between Bourbon Reformers and the Missionaries of Santa Rosa de Ocopa in Peru, 1709-1824 [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374072518

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jones, Cameron. In Service of God and King: Conflicts between Bourbon Reformers and the Missionaries of Santa Rosa de Ocopa in Peru, 1709-1824. 2013. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374072518.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jones, Cameron. "In Service of God and King: Conflicts between Bourbon Reformers and the Missionaries of Santa Rosa de Ocopa in Peru, 1709-1824." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374072518

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