Rethinking indigenous devotions in central Mexico -- Before 1571 : disciplinary humanism and exemplary punishment -- Local cosmologies and secular extirpators in Nahua communities, 1571-1662 -- Secular and civil campaigns against native devotions in Oaxaca, 1571-1660 -- Literate idolatries : clandestine Nahua and Zapotec ritual texts in the seventeenth century -- After 1660 : punitive experiments against idolatry -- In the care of God the father : northern Zapotec ancestral observances, 1691-1706 -- From idolatry to maleficio : reform, factionalism, and institutional conflicts in the eighteenth century -- A colonial archipelago of faith