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Mark Christensen - Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Texts and Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan - 9780804785280 - V9780804785280
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Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Texts and Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan

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Description for Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Texts and Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, maps, fig. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HRAX; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 789. Weight in Grams: 658.

Nahua and Maya Catholicisms examines ecclesiastical texts written in Nahuatl and Yucatec Maya to illustrate the role of these texts in conveying and reflecting various Catholic messages—and thus Catholicisms—throughout colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan. It demonstrates how published and unpublished sermons, confessional manuals, catechisms, and other religious texts betray "official" and "unofficial" versions of Catholicism, and how these versions changed throughout the colonial period according to indigenous culture, local situations, and broader early modern events. The book's study of these texts also allows for a better appreciation of the negotiations that occurred during the evangelization process between native and Spanish ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804785280
SKU
V9780804785280
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About Mark Christensen
Mark Z. Christensen is Assistant Professor of History at Assumption College.

Reviews for Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Texts and Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan
"Christensen has paid admirable attention to local diversity of religious experience and change over time in his finely grained analysis . . . It is a richly detailed, clearly written, and compelling addition to the historiography."
Brian Larkin
American Historical Review
"Christensen successfully provides definitive documentary evidence of not only the existence of various Catholicisms, but also ... Read more

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