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The Maya and Catholicism : an encounter of worldviews / John D. Early.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Early, John D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mayas--Religion.
- Mayas.
- Mayas--Rites and ceremonies.
- Maya cosmology.
- Indian Catholics--Latin America--History.
- Indian Catholics.
- Christianity and culture--Latin America.
- Christianity and culture.
- Christianity and other religions--Latin America.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Catholic Church--Missions--Latin America--History.
- Catholic Church.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Mayan ethnographer John Early examines the centuries-long speculation about why the ritual calendars of the Mayan Indians in Guatemala and the regions of Chiapas and Yucatan in Mexico revolve around festivals in honor of the Catholic saints.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-4002-7
- OCLC:
- 746746860
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