Title The Maya and Catholicism : an encounter of worldviews / John D. Early.

Publication Info.	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2006]
	©2006

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Description	1 online resource (xvi, 311 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
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.
Summary	Mayan ethnographer John Early examines the centuries-long speculation about why the ritual calendars of the Mayan Indians in Guatemala and the regions of Chiapas and Yucatan in Mexico revolve around festivals in honor of the Catholic saints.
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Subject	Catholic Church -- Missions -- Latin America -- History.
	Catholic Church.
	Missions.
	Latin America.
	History.
	Catholic Church.
	Église catholique.
	Église catholique -- Missions -- Amérique latine -- Histoire.
	Mayas -- Religion.
	Mayas -- Religion.
	Mayas -- Rites and ceremonies.
	Mayas -- Rites and ceremonies.
	Maya cosmology.
	Maya cosmology.
	Indian Catholics -- Latin America -- History.
	Indian Catholics.
	Christianity and culture -- Latin America.
	Christianity and culture.
	Christianity and other religions -- Latin America.
	Christianity and other religions.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Early, John D. Maya and Catholicism. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2006 0813030250 (DLC) 2006023026 (OCoLC)70668691
ISBN	9780813040028 (e-book)
	0813040027 (e-book)
	9780813030258 (alkaline paper)
	0813030250 (alkaline paper)

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