Fiesta y teatro como escenarios del poder religioso: jesuitas vs. Dominicos, Manila, siglo XVII

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to deeply explore the role played by the various compo­nents of the feast in the complex relations between Jesuits and Dominicans in Manila in the second half of the 17th century, with special regard for theater, ephemeral art, and sacred oratory. Far from being trivial, this question is part of the “battle for propaganda” that ultimately resolves quotas of spiritual and tem­poral power, an issue that will become thornier with the appointment in 1677 of the Dominican Felipe Pardo as Archbishop of Manila and his manifest animosity to the Society of jesus.