Repository logo
 

Words & worlds turned around: indigenous Christianities in colonial Latin America

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorTavárez, David, editor
dc.contributor.authorUniversity Press of Colorado, publisher
dc.coverage.spatialLatin America
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-11T14:43:08Z
dc.date.available2017-12-11T14:43:08Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractA 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.
dc.description.tableofcontentsPerforming the Zaachila word: the Dominican invention of Zapotec Christianity / David Tavárez -- Toward a deconstruction of the notion of Nahua "confession" / Julia Madajczak -- Precontact indigenous concepts in Christian translations: the terminology of sin and confession in early colonial Quechua texts / Gregory Haimovich -- A sixteenth-century priest's field notes among the highland Maya: Proto-theologia as vade mecum / Garry Sparks and Frauke Sachse -- International collaborations in translation: the European promise of militant Christianity for the Tupinambá of Portuguese America, 1550s-1613 / M. Kittiya Lee -- The Nahua story of Judas: indigenous agency and loci of meaning / Justyna Olko -- A Nahua Christian talks back: Fabián de Aquino's Antichrist dramas as autoethnography / Ben Leeming -- Sin, shame, and sexuality: Franciscan obsessions and Maya humor in the Calepino de Motul Dictionary, 1573-1588 / John F. Chuchiak, IV -- To make Christianity fit: the process of Christianization from an Andean perspective / Claudia Brosseder -- Predictions and portents of doomsday in European, Nahuatl, and Maya texts / Mark Z. Christensen -- The value of El Costumbre and Christianity in the discourse of Nahua: catechists from the Huasteca region in Veracruz, Mexico / Abelardo de la Cruz.
dc.format.mediumborn digital
dc.format.mediumbooks
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/185426
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofUniversity Press of Colorado
dc.rightsCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.
dc.rightsAll rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.
dc.rights.accessAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University members only.
dc.subjectCatholic Church -- Latin America -- History
dc.subjectLatin America -- History -- To 1830
dc.subjectSyncretism (Religion) -- Latin America
dc.subjectChristianity and other religions
dc.subjectIndians of South America -- Religion
dc.subjectIndians of Mexico -- Religion
dc.subjectIndigenous peoples -- Latin America -- Languages
dc.subjectSpanish language -- Religious aspects
dc.titleWords & worlds turned around: indigenous Christianities in colonial Latin America
dc.typeText

Files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
BKSaCUPR_colo_9781607326847.pdf
Size:
6.89 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
UPC Members only
Download

Collections

University Press of Colorado