Umfang:
xv, 324 Seiten
ISBN:
9780190678302
Serie:
Religion in translation / American Academy of Religion
Anmerkung:
Contains facsimiles of original document, along with trancriptions in quiché and corresponding translations into English
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The Theologia Indorum by Dominican friar Domingo de Vico was the first explicit Christian theology written in the Americas and remains the longest text in any indigenous American language. While its impact never left the region of the Guatemalan highlands its immediate readers, namely the Highland Maya, engaged it as they began to write some of the first post-contact indigenous American literature.Rather than merely condemn the Maya religion, Vico appropriated local terms and images from Maya mythology and ritual that he thought could convey Christianity. Furthermore, his attempt at translating, if not reconfiguring, Christianity for a Maya readership entailed his mastery of not only numerous Mayan languages but also the highly poetic ceremonial rhetoric of many indigenous Mesoamerican peoples. This book also includes for the first time in English two other pastoral texts, parts of a songbook and a catechism, also originally written in Highland Mayan languages by fellow Dominicans, which show the wider influence of Vico's ethnographic approach shared by a particular school of Dominicans
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Made available in English translation from the sixteenth-century K'iche' Maya for the first time, this book presents a selection of exemplary sections of Vico's theological tome that illustrate Vico's doctrine of god, cosmogony, moral anthropology, understanding of natural law and biblical history, and constructive engagement with pre-Hispanic Maya religion
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In English language, Quiché language transliteration and English translation
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780190678319
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Vico, Domingo de, 1485-1555, author Americas' first theologies New York : Oxford University Press, 2017
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Maya
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Religion
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Christianisierung
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Quelle
