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The Maya and Catholicism [electronic resource] : an encounter of worldviews / John D. Early.

By: Publication details: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2006.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 311 p.) : ill., mapISBN:
  • 9780813040028 (electronic bk.)
  • 0813040027 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Maya and Catholicism.DDC classification:
  • 261.2/97842 22
LOC classification:
  • F1435.3.R3 E37 2006eb
Online resources:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-295) and indexes.

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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