The Americas' First Theologies

Early Sources of Post-Contact Indigenous Religion
Herausgeber: Sparks, Garry / Übersetzer: Sparks, Garry

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Produktbeschreibung

The Americas' First Theologies provides the first English translation of some of the earliest post-contact religious texts, including selections from the Theologia Indorum and early indigenous texts written for the Maya that were influenced by this theological treatise.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch, Maya-Sprachen
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780190678302
• ISBN-10: 0190678305
• Artikelnr.: 47972413

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Forward by Robert M. Carmack
Introduction
Chapter One: Domingo de Vico's "Theology 'for' or 'of' the Indians"
Vico's Theologia Indorum (1553 and 1554)
Chapter Two: Other Dominican Lessons in Highland Mayan Languages - Spoken and Sung
Coplas of Friar Luis de Cáncer, O.P.
Doctrina cristiana by Friar Damián Delgado, O.P.
Chapter Three: Highland Maya Theological Production
Popol Wuj (ca.1554-ca.1558), folio 1 recto
Title of Totonicapán (ca.1554), folios 1-7
Xpantzay Cartulary I (ca.1552)
Title of the Tamub' I (1580)
Title of Santa Clara La Laguna (1583)
Title of the Tamub' III (1592)
Title of the Ilokab' (ca.1592)
Xpantzay Cartulary VI (ca.1658), folio 1
Another Colophon
Contributors
Bibliography
Index