| Description |
xvi, 311 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-295) and indexes. |
| Contents |
The research -- The saints, their homes, and their servants -- Mayan festivals for the saints -- Mayan insistence on the mass performed by a Catholic priest -- Traditional Mayan worldview -- The worldview of the Spanish crown at the beginning of the sixteenth century -- Spanish victories and their impact on the Mayan worldview -- The goals of evangelization -- The strategy for communicating the doctrina -- Problems facing the friars -- The secular clergy -- The necessity of the saints in the Mayan worldview -- The necessity of the mass, baptism, and the Catholic priest in the Mayan worldview -- The fiscal -- The mass of the talking saints -- Questions raised by the research. |
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Mayas -- Religion.
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Mayas -- Religion. |
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Mayas -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Mayas -- Rites and ceremonies. |
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Maya cosmology.
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Maya cosmology. |
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Indian Catholics -- Latin America -- History.
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Indian Catholics. |
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Latin America. |
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History. |
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Catholic Church -- Missions -- Latin America -- History.
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Catholic Church. |
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Missions. |
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Christianity and culture -- Latin America.
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Christianity and culture. |
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Christianity and other religions -- Latin America.
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Christianity and other religions. |
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Église catholique -- Missions -- Amérique latine -- Histoire. |
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Mayas -- Religion. |
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Mayas -- Rites et cérémonies. |
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Cosmologie maya. |
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Catholiques indiens d'Amérique -- Amérique latine -- Histoire. |
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Christianisme et civilisation -- Amérique latine. |
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Christianisme -- Relations -- Amérique latine. |
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Rooms-katholicisme. |
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Maya's. |
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Syncretisme. |
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Riten. |
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Latijns-Amerika. |
| ISBN |
0813030250 alkaline paper |
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9780813030258 alkaline paper |
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