Tavárez, David, editorUniversity Press of Colorado, publisher2017-12-112017-12-112017https://hdl.handle.net/10217/185426Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Performing 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.born digitalbooksengCopyright 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.All 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.Catholic Church -- Latin America -- HistoryLatin America -- History -- To 1830Syncretism (Religion) -- Latin AmericaChristianity and other religionsIndians of South America -- ReligionIndians of Mexico -- ReligionIndigenous peoples -- Latin America -- LanguagesSpanish language -- Religious aspectsWords & worlds turned around: indigenous Christianities in colonial Latin AmericaTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, 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 communities only.