Words & worlds turned around : indigenous Christianities in colonial Latin America /
Words & worlds turned around : indigenous Christianities in colonial Latin America /
Words and worlds turned around
edited by David Tavárez.
- Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 329 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
Performing the Zaachila word : the Dominican invention of Zapotec Christianity / Toward a deconstruction of the notion of Nahua "confession" / Precontact indigenous concepts in Christian translations : the terminology of sin and confession in early colonial Quechua texts / A sixteenth-century priest's field notes among the highland Maya : Proto-theologia as vade mecum / International collaborations in translation : the European promise of militant Christianity for the Tupinambá of Portuguese America, 1550s-1613 / The Nahua story of Judas : indigenous agency and loci of meaning / A Nahua Christian talks back : Fabián de Aquino's antichrist dramas as autoethnography / Sin, shame, and sexuality : Franciscan obsessions and Maya humor in the Calepino de Motul Dictionary, 1573-1588 / To make Christianity fit : the process of Christianization from an Andean perspective / Predictions and portents of doomsday in European, Nahuatl, and Maya texts / The value of El Costumbre and Christianity in the discourse of Nahua : catechists from the Huasteca region in Veracruz, Mexico / David Tavárez -- Julia Madajczak -- Gregory Haimovich -- Garry Sparks and Frauke Sachse -- M. Kittiya Lee -- Justyna Olko -- Ben Leeming -- John F. Chuchiak, IV -- Claudia Brosseder -- Mark Z. Christensen -- Abelardo de la Cruz.
"A sophisticated, state-of-the-art approach to the embrace of Christianity by indigenous societies, that reveals the manifold transformations of Christian discourses in the colonial Americas. Surveying how Christian messages were rendered in indigenous languages, the book explores what was gained, transformed, or left behind in these translations"--Provided by publisher
9781607326847
GBC158955 bnb
020153753 Uk
Catholic Church--History.--Latin America
Catholic Church--History.
Syncretism (Religion)--Latin America.
Christianity and other religions.
Indians of South America--Religion.
Indians of Mexico--Religion.
Indigenous peoples--Languages.--Latin America
Spanish language--Religious aspects.
Electronic Books.
F1219 / .W673 2017
Includes bibliographies and index.
Performing the Zaachila word : the Dominican invention of Zapotec Christianity / Toward a deconstruction of the notion of Nahua "confession" / Precontact indigenous concepts in Christian translations : the terminology of sin and confession in early colonial Quechua texts / A sixteenth-century priest's field notes among the highland Maya : Proto-theologia as vade mecum / International collaborations in translation : the European promise of militant Christianity for the Tupinambá of Portuguese America, 1550s-1613 / The Nahua story of Judas : indigenous agency and loci of meaning / A Nahua Christian talks back : Fabián de Aquino's antichrist dramas as autoethnography / Sin, shame, and sexuality : Franciscan obsessions and Maya humor in the Calepino de Motul Dictionary, 1573-1588 / To make Christianity fit : the process of Christianization from an Andean perspective / Predictions and portents of doomsday in European, Nahuatl, and Maya texts / The value of El Costumbre and Christianity in the discourse of Nahua : catechists from the Huasteca region in Veracruz, Mexico / David Tavárez -- Julia Madajczak -- Gregory Haimovich -- Garry Sparks and Frauke Sachse -- M. Kittiya Lee -- Justyna Olko -- Ben Leeming -- John F. Chuchiak, IV -- Claudia Brosseder -- Mark Z. Christensen -- Abelardo de la Cruz.
"A sophisticated, state-of-the-art approach to the embrace of Christianity by indigenous societies, that reveals the manifold transformations of Christian discourses in the colonial Americas. Surveying how Christian messages were rendered in indigenous languages, the book explores what was gained, transformed, or left behind in these translations"--Provided by publisher
9781607326847
GBC158955 bnb
020153753 Uk
Catholic Church--History.--Latin America
Catholic Church--History.
Syncretism (Religion)--Latin America.
Christianity and other religions.
Indians of South America--Religion.
Indians of Mexico--Religion.
Indigenous peoples--Languages.--Latin America
Spanish language--Religious aspects.
Electronic Books.
F1219 / .W673 2017