Counter-Hispanization in the Colonial Philippines Literature, Law, Religion, and Native Custom Blanco, John D. creator author. text Church history. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. ne 2023 monographic eng print 355 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. In Counter-Hispanization in the Colonial Philippines, the author analyzes the literature and politics of "spiritual conquest" in order to demonstrate how it reflected the contribution of religious ministers to a protracted period of social anomie throughout the mission provinces between the 16th-18th centuries. By tracking the prose of spiritual conquest with the history of the mission in official documents, religious correspondence, and public controversies, the author shows how, contrary to the general consensus in Philippine historiography, the literature and pastoral politics of spiritual conquest reinforced the frontier character of the religious provinces outside Manila in the Americas as well as the Philippines, by supplanting the (absence of) law in the name of supplementing or completing it. This frontier character accounts for the modern reinvention of native custom as well as the birth of literature and theater in the Tagalog vernacular. specialized John D. Blanco. "Amsterdam University Press" a-ph--- e-sp--- Philippines History 1521-1898 Philippine literature (Spanish) History and criticism Spain Relations Philippines Philippines Relations Spain Spain Colonies Asia Philippines Church history Catholic Church Philippines Literary studies: c. 1500 to c. 1800 Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century * LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Religion * Catholic Church. International relations Philippine literature (Spanish) Spanish colonies Asia Philippines Spain Literary studies: plays and playwrights Colonialism and imperialism 1521-1898 fast History, Art History, and Archaeology HIS Colonial Studies COLONIAL Early Modern Studies EARLY MOD Literary Theory, Criticism, and History LIT Colonialism, Religion (Christianity), Philippines DS674 .B53 2023 959.902 Connected histories in the early modern world 9789463725880 9463725881 9789463725880 pda,print NLAUP 230612 20250318214954.5 in00004736440 eng