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Zusatztext "Through a skilled comparative analysis of seventy-one published and unpublished Nahuatl- and Maya-language sources representing more than three hundred years (1546–1855), Christensen successfully provides definitive documentary evidence of not only the existence of various Catholicisms, but also the distinct ways in which Nahuas, Mayas, and Spaniards created, prescribed, and reflected the Christian message(s) at local and regional levels....Eminently readable and impeccably researched." Informationen zum Autor Mark Z. Christensen is Assistant Professor of History at Assumption College. Klappentext Nahua and Maya Catholicisms examines ecclesiastical texts written in Nahuatl and Yucatec Maya to illustrate the role of these texts in conveying and reflecting various Catholic messages-and thus Catholicisms-throughout colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan. It demonstrates how published and unpublished sermons, confessional manuals, catechisms, and other religious texts betray "official" and "unofficial" versions of Catholicism, and how these versions changed throughout the colonial period according to indigenous culture, local situations, and broader early modern events. The book's study of these texts also allows for a better appreciation of the negotiations that occurred during the evangelization process between native and Spanish cultures, the center and periphery, and between official expectations and everyday realities. And by employing both Nahuatl and Maya religious texts, Nahua and Maya Catholicism allows for a uniquely comparative study that expands beyond Central Mexico to include Yucatan. Zusammenfassung Nahua and Maya Catholicisms examines ecclesiastical texts written in Nahuatl and Yucatec Maya to illustrate the role of these texts in conveying and reflecting various Catholic messages-and thus Catholicisms-throughout colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan. It demonstrates how published and unpublished sermons! confessional manuals! catechisms! and other religious texts betray "official" and "unofficial" versions of Catholicism! and how these versions changed throughout the colonial period according to indigenous culture! local situations! and broader early modern events. The book's study of these texts also allows for a better appreciation of the negotiations that occurred during the evangelization process between native and Spanish cultures! the center and periphery! and between official expectations and everyday realities. And by employing both Nahuatl and Maya religious texts! Nahua and Maya Catholicism allows for a uniquely comparative study that expands beyond Central Mexico to include Yucatan. ...
