The Maya and Catholicism : an encounter of worldviews / John D. Early

Author:: Early, John D.
Published:: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2006]
Copyright Date:: ©2006
Physical Description:: xvi, 311 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

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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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ISBN:

0813030250 (alk. paper)
9780813030258 (alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-295) and indexes.

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