Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Texts and Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan

by Mark Christensen

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 It demonstrates how published and unpublished sermons, confessional manuals, catechisms, and other religious texts betray "official" and "unofficial" versions of Catholicism, and how these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804785287
• ISBN13: 9780804785280
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"