Title Words & worlds turned around : Indigenous Christianities in colonial Latin America / edited by David Tavárez ; with a foreword by William B. Taylor

Published Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 329 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction / Louise M. Burkhart -- 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 -- Conclusions / David Tavárez Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Catholic Church -- Latin America -- History Catholic Church -- History. Catholic Church Église catholique -- Amérique latine -- Histoire. Syncretism (Religion) -- Latin America Christianity and other religions. Indians of South America -- Religion. Indians of Mexico -- Religion. Indigenous peoples -- Latin America -- Languages Spanish language -- Religious aspects. HISTORY -- Latin America -- General. HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Spanish language -- Religious aspects Indigenous peoples -- Languages Christianity and other religions Indians of Mexico -- Religion Indians of South America -- Religion Syncretism (Religion) Latin America -- History -- To 1830. Latin America Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Tavárez, David Eduardo, editor. Taylor, William B., writer of foreword. ISBN 9781607326847 1607326841

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