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Title:

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

Publisher:

University Press of Colorado,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xvi, 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Subject:

Catholic Church--Latin America--History.
Église catholique--Histoire.
Catholic Church.
Église catholique--Amérique latine--Histoire.
Indigenous peoples--Religious life--Latin America.
Latin America--History--To 1830.
Latin America--Church history.
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.
Amérique latine--Histoire--Jusqu'à 1830.
Amérique latine--Histoire religieuse.
Syncrétisme--Amérique latine.
Christianisme--Relations.
Indiens d'Amérique--Mexique--Religion.
Espagnol (Langue)--Aspect religieux.
Spanish language--Religious aspects.
Indigenous peoples--Languages.
Christianity and other religions.
Indians of Mexico--Religion.
Indians of South America--Religion.
Syncretism (Religion)
Latin America.
To 1830
Church history.
History.

Other Authors:

Tavárez, David Eduardo, editor.
Taylor, William B., writer of foreword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Conclusions / David Tavárez. The value of El Costumbre and Christianity in the discourse of Nahua : catechists from the Huasteca region in Veracruz, Mexico, 1970s-2010s / 1. Performing the Zaachila word : the Dominican invention of Zapotec Christianity / David Tavárez -- 2. Toward a deconstruction of the notion of Nahua "confession" / Julia Madajczak -- 3. Precontact indigenous concepts in Christian translations : the terminology of sin and confession in early colonial Quechua texts / Gregory Haimovich -- 4. A sixteenth-century priest's field notes among the highland Maya : proto-Theologia as Vade Mecum / Garry Sparks and Frauke Sachse -- Indigenous Agency and Reception Strategies. 5. International collaborations in translation : the European promise of militant Christianity for the Tupinambá of Portuguese America, 1550s-1612 / M. Kittiya Lee -- 6. The Nahua story of Judas : indigenous agency and loci of meaning / Justyna Olko -- 7. A Nahua Christian talks back : Fabián de Aquino's antichrist dramas as autoethnography / Ben Leeming -- Transformations, Appropriations, and Dialogues. 8. Sin, shame, and sexuality : Franciscan obsessions and Maya humor in the Calepino de Motul Dictionary, 1573-1588 / John F. Chuchiak, IV -- 9. To make Christianity fit : the process of Christianization from an Andean perspective / Claudia Brosseder -- 10. Predictions and portents of doomsday in European, Nahuatl, and Maya texts / Mark Z. Christensen -- Contemporary Nahua Christianities. 11. The value of El Costumbre and Christianity in the discourse of Nahua : catechists from the Huasteca region in Veracruz, Mexico, 1970s-2010s / 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.

ISBN:

1607326833
9781607326830

OCLC:

(OCoLC)984743107

LCCN:

2017016850

Locations:

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)