Rewriting Maya Religion: Domingo de Vico, K'Iche' Maya Intellectuals, and the Theologia Indorum

by Garry G Sparks

In Rewriting Maya Religion Garry Sparks examines the earliest religious documents composed by missionaries and native authors in the Americas, including a reconstruction of the first original, explicit Christian theology written in the Americas--the nearly 900-page Theologia Indorum (Theology for or of] the Indians), initially written in Mayan languages by Friar Domingo de Vico by 1554. Sparks traces how the first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607329697
• ISBN13: 9781607329695
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up