Rewriting Maya religion : Domingo de Vico, k'iche' Maya intellectuals, and the Theologia indorum / Garry G. Sparks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sparks, Garry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vico, Domingo de, 1485-1555. Theologia indorum.

Vico, Domingo de.

Catholic Church--Doctrines.

Catholic Church.

Quiché language--Texts.

Quiché language.

Theology, Doctrinal.

Indians of Mexico--Religion.

Indians of Mexico.

Genre:

Texts.

Physical Description:

ix, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2019]

Summary:

"Reconstructs the original Christian theology written in the Americas: the 1,400-page Theologia Indorum (Theology for the Indians) written in K'iche' Maya by Friar Domingo de Vico in 1554. Tracing how the Dominican missionaries resourced native religious ideas, myths, and rhetoric, reexamines the role and value of indigenous authority"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 Historical Contexts of the Old Worlds

1 Mesoamericans Shape a New World: K'iche' Maya 101 p. 29

2 Mendicants Shape a New World: Transatlantic Catholicisms p. 52

Part 2 Recovering Vico's K'iche'an Theology

3 Nima Ajtij Father Friar Domingo de Vico, O.P.: An Ethnobiography p. 91

4 Vico's Theology for and of the "Indians": Summary of a Summa Americana p. 134

5 Use of Maya "Scripture": Vico's Theological Method and Doctrine of Ajaw p. 167

Part 3 Tracing Vico in K'iche' Religious Texts

6 Use of the Theologia Indorum in the Popol Wuj: A Maya Response p. 197

7 Maya Notarial Genres as Hyperlocal Theology: The Title of Totonicapán p. 232

8 A Reception Ethnohistory of a Christianity: Other Early Maya Hyperlocal Theologies p. 271

9 Intertextualicy, Hyperlocalism, and the Continued Dialogic Emergence of Theologies p. 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781607329695

1607329697

OCLC:

1100428078