The Americas' First Theologies (eBook, PDF)

Early Sources of Post-Contact Indigenous Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190678319
• Artikelnr.: 48794803

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