The Maya and Catholicism [electronic resource] : an encounter of worldviews / John D. Early.
Publication details: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2006.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 311 p.) : ill., mapISBN:- 9780813040028 (electronic bk.)
- 0813040027 (electronic bk.)
- Mayas -- Religion
- Mayas -- Rites and ceremonies
- Maya cosmology
- Indian Catholics -- Latin America -- History
- Catholic Church -- Missions -- Latin America -- History
- Christianity and culture -- Latin America
- Christianity and other religions -- Latin America
- Église catholique -- Missions -- Amérique latine -- Histoire
- Mayas -- Religion
- Mayas -- Rites et cérémonies
- Cosmologie maya
- Catholiques indiens d'Amérique -- Amérique latine -- Histoire
- Christianisme et civilisation -- Amérique latine
- Christianisme -- Relations -- Amérique latine
- Rooms-katholicisme
- Maya's
- Syncretisme
- Riten
- Latijns-Amerika
- Mayas -- Religión y mitología
- Cristianismo y otras religiones
- Evangelización -- América latina -- Historia
- RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues
- RELIGION / Christianity / General
- 261.2/97842 22
- F1435.3.R3 E37 2006eb
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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