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Nahua and Maya Catholicisms : texts and religion in colonial central Mexico and Yucatan / Mark Z. Christensen.
- Title
- Nahua and Maya Catholicisms : texts and religion in colonial central Mexico and Yucatan / Mark Z. Christensen.
- Author
- Christensen, Mark Z.
- Publication
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press ; Berkeley, California : The Academy of American Franciscan History, 2013.
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- Description
- xiv, 318 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Christensen examines ecclesiastical texts written in Nahuatl and Yucatec Maya to illustrate their role in conveying and reflecting various Catholic messages - and thus Catholicisms - throughout colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan. He demonstrates how published and unpublished sermons, confessional manuals, catechisms, and other religious texts betray 'official' and 'unofficial' versions of Catholicism, and how these versions changed throughout the colonial period according to indigenous culture, local situations, and broader early modern events.
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Aztecs > Religion
- Christianity and culture > Mexico > History
- Christianity and other religions > Mexico > History
- Christianity and other religions > Mexico
- Indian Catholics > Mexico > History
- Mayas > Religion
- Religious literature, Spanish > Translations into Maya
- Religious literature, Spanish > Translations into Nahuatl
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-307) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: different texts, different versions -- Spelling out salvation -- The pen is mightier than the sword -- Getting down to the basics: commandments and prayers -- "One God, one faith, one baptism" -- The various confessions of Mesoamerica -- Adam's world tree and Paul's idol -- Voices from the dust -- Saintly devotion -- Conclusion: Nahua and Maya Catholicisms -- Appendixes: A. Employed Nahuatl and Maya ecclesiastical texts and corpora (1546-1855) -- B. Nahuatl translations of the creed -- C. Maya translations of the creed -- D. Cacalchen preambles (1646-1654) -- E. Maya testament from Ixil (1748).
- ISBN
- 9780804785280 (alk. paper)
- 0804785287 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2012043584
- OCLC
- 818953187
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library