Words & worlds turned around : indigenous christianities in colonial Latin America / edited by David Tavárez

Date : 2017

Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 978-1-60732-683-0

EAN : 9781607326830

Église catholique -- Amérique latine -- Histoire

Syncrétisme -- Amérique latine

Christianisme -- Relations

Indiens d'Amérique -- Amérique du Sud -- Religion

Classification Dewey : 980/.01

Tavárez, David Eduardo (Editeur scientifique / editor)

Résumé / Abstract : L'éditeur indique : "A sophisticated, state-of-the-art approach to the embrace of Christianity by indigenous societies, that reveals the manifold transformations of Christian discourses in the colonial Americas. Surveying how Christian messages were rendered in indigenous languages, the book explores what was gained, transformed, or left behind in these translations"