Americas' First Theologies: Early Sources of Post-Contact Indigenous Religion (AAR - Religion in Translation) - Hardcover

 
9780190678302: Americas' First Theologies: Early Sources of Post-Contact Indigenous Religion (AAR - Religion in Translation)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0190678305 ISBN 13: 9780190678302
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

The Theologia Indorum by Dominican friar Domingo de Vico was the first Christian theology written in the Americas. Made available in English translation for the first time, Americas' First Theologies presents a selection of exemplary sections from the Theologia Indorum that illustrate Friar Vico's doctrine of god, cosmogony, moral anthropology, understanding of natural law and biblical history, and constructive engagement with pre-Hispanic Maya religion. Rather than merely condemn the Maya religion, Vico appropriated local terms and images from Maya mythology and rituals that he thought could convey Christianity. His attempt at translating, if not reconfiguring, Christianity for a Maya readership required his mastery of not only numerous Mayan languages but also the highly poetic ceremonial rhetoric of many indigenous Mesoamerican peoples. This book also includes translations of two other pastoral texts (parts of a songbook and a catechism) and eight early documents by K'iche' and Kaqchikel Maya authors who engaged the Theologia Indorum. These texts, written in Highland Mayan languages both by fellow Dominicans and by Highland Maya elites demonstrate the wider influence of Vico's ethnographic approach shared by a particular school of Dominicans. Altogether, The Americas' First Theologies provides a rich documentary case example of the translation, reception, and reaction to Christian thought in the indigenous Americas

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Garry G. Sparks is Associate Professor of Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of Rewriting Maya Religion: Domingo de Vico, K'iche' Maya Intellectuals, and the Theologia Indorum. His research is supported by the National Endowment of the Humanities and the American Academy of Religion.

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Verlag
OXFORD UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0190678305
ISBN 13 
9780190678302
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
344
Herausgeber
Sparks Garry
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