Abstract

SANTOFIMIO ORTIZ, RODRIGO. Don Bartolomé Lobo Guerrero, Third Archbishop of the New Kingdom of Granada (1599-1609) and the Process of Christianization during the High Colonial Period. Anu. colomb. hist. soc. cult. [online]. 2011, vol.38, n.1, pp.17-49. ISSN 0120-2456.

Through the figure of Bartolomé Lobo Guerrero, third Archbishop of the New Kingdom of Granada between 1599 and 1609, the article examines the process of acculturation of the indigenous population provided under Juan de Borja's presidency of the Royal Audiencia. The figure of Lobo Guerrero is important due to his intellectual preparation and experience, to the strategy of conversion through the issuance of the Synod Constitutions (1606), and to the establishment of the Jesuit Order. The article starts out by questioning the classical understandings of the acculturation process that completely ignore Pre-Columbian religious forms. On the contrary, the article suggests an empirical and analytical understanding (on the basis of a historical and critical sociology) based on secondary sources, it also shows that there were forms of resistance and assimilation through syncretism, thus giving rise to popular religion.

Keywords : acculturation; Company of Jesus; Council of Trent; Synod Constitutions; popular religiousness; Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition.

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