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Author Graham, Elizabeth A., 1949-

Title Maya Christians and their churches in sixteenth-century Belize / Elizabeth Graham.

Publication Info. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2011]
©2011
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 434 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Maya studies
Maya studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Based on her analysis of archaeological evidence from the excavations of Maya churches at Tipu and Lamanai, Elizabeth Graham's book seeks to understand why the Maya sometimes actively embraced Catholicism during the period of European conquest and continued to worship in this way even after the end of the Spanish occupation.
Contents The view from Belize and the vision from St. Mike's -- Yucatan and Belize on the eve of conquest -- Chesse and terms -- Being Christian and the doctrine of the church -- The environment of early contact -- The millennial kingdom and Belize missions -- How to tell a church -- The churches at Tipu and Lamanai -- Reductions and upheaval in the seventeenth century -- What Europe did for us -- Being pagan -- Everyone knows what a dragon looks like -- Appendix 1. Friars in Belize -- Appendix 2. Bishops of Yucatan to 1714.
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Subject Franciscans -- Missions -- Belize -- History -- 16th century.
Franciscans.
Missions.
Belize.
History.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Franciscans.
Mayas -- Belize -- Religion.
Mayas.
Religion.
Mayas -- Missions -- Belize.
Mayas -- Missions.
Mayas -- Belize -- Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Belize.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Social archaeology -- Belize.
Social archaeology.
Belize -- Antiquities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Graham, Elizabeth A., 1949- Maya Christians and their churches in sixteenth-century Belize. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2011 9780813036663 (DLC) 2011011290 (OCoLC)666240004
ISBN 9780813040721 (electronic book)
0813040728 (electronic book)
9780813036663
0813036666

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