| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 329 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| 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. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- Value of El Costumbre and Christianity in the discourse of Nahua : catechists from the Huasteca region in Veracruz, Mexico / Abelardo de la Cruz. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Catholic Church -- Latin America -- History.
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Catholic Church -- History.
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Catholic Church. |
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History. |
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Église catholique -- Histoire. |
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Latin America -- History -- To 1830.
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Latin America. |
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To 1830 |
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Syncretism (Religion) -- Latin America.
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Christianity and other religions.
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Syncretism (Religion) |
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Christianity and other religions. |
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Indians of South America -- Religion.
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Indians of South America -- Religion. |
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Indians of Mexico -- Religion.
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Indigenous peoples -- Latin America -- Languages.
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Indians of Mexico -- Religion. |
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Spanish language -- Religious aspects.
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Spanish language -- Religious aspects. |
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- General. |
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Indigenous peoples. |
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. |
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Language and languages. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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Indigenous peoples -- Languages. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Tavárez, David Eduardo, editor.
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| Added Title |
Words and worlds turned around |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Words and worlds turned around. Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2017] 9781607326830 (DLC) 2017016850 (OCoLC)984743107 |
| ISBN |
9781607326847 (electronic book) |
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1607326841 (electronic book) |
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9781607326830 |
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1607326833 |
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