CONTENTS Negotiation Between Religion and the Law Santa Arias and Raul Marrero-Fente Politics Jose de Acosta: Colonial Regimes for a Globalized Christian World Ivonne del Valle Conquistador Counterpoint: Intimate Enmity in the Writings of Bernardo de Vargas Machuca Kris Lane Voices of the Altepetl: Nahua Epistemologies and Resistance in the Anales de Juan Bautista Ezekiel Stear Performances of Indigenous Authority in Postconquest Tlaxcalan Annals: Don Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza's Historia cronologica de la noble ciudad de Tlaxcala Kelly S. McDonough Religion Translating the "Doctrine of Discovery": Spain, England, and Native American Religions Ralph Bauer Narrating Conversion: Idolatry, the Sacred, and the Ambivalences of Christian Evangelization in Colonial Peru Laura Leon Llerena Old Enemies, New Contexts: Early Modern Spanish (Re)-Writing of Islam in the Philippines Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez Art That Pushes and Pulls: Visualizing Religion and Law in the Early Colonial Provinces of Toluca Delia A. Cosentino Law The Rhetoric of War and Justice in the Conquest of the Americas: Ethnography, Law, and Humanism in Juan Gines de Sepulveda and Bartolome de Las Casas David M. Solodkow Human Sacrifice, Conquest, and the Law: Cultural Interpretation and Colonial Sovereignty in New Spain Cristian Roa Legal Pluralism and the "India Pura" in New Spain: The School of Guadalupe and the Convent of the Company of Mary Monica Diaz Our Lady of Anarchy: Iconography as Law on the Frontiers of the Spanish Empire John D. (Jody) Blanco Afterword Epilogue: Teleiopoesis at the Crossroads of the Colonial/Postcolonial Divide Jose Rabasa.