“Al infierno, para siempre jamás”: The Affective Politics of Fear in the First Part of Sermones de los misterios de nuestra Santa Fe Católica, by Fernando de Avendaño

From the perspective of cultural history for the close reading of colonial prose, this paper suggests that the (re)presentation of a paternalistic and punishing pedagogy in the first part of Sermones de los misterios de nuestra Santa Fe Católica, by Fernando de Avendaño, implies the constitution and implementation of both a pragmatic and a rhetorical of fear of God, hell and sin to create a situation of a christian and colonial metanoia. Considering fear as a politics of emotion, and metanoia as the Christian and integral conversion of life forms after the refutation of a non-Christian religious-cultural system, this paper analyzes how this corpus, under the ideological discourse of colonial orthodoxy, organizes a pedagogy of fear as an instrument of construction and control of the indigenous subject.