Words and Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America

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A sophisticated, cutting-edge study of the remaking of Christianity by indigenous societies, Words and Worlds Turned Around reveals the manifold transformations of Christian discourses within the colonial Americas. The book surveys how Christian messages were rendered in indigenous languages; explores what was once added, transformed, or glossed over; and ends with an epilogue about up to date Nahuatl Christianities.

In eleven case studies drawn from eight Amerindian languages—Nahuatl, Northern and Valley Zapotec, Quechua, Yucatec Maya, K’iche’ Maya, Q’eqchi’ Maya, and Tupi—the authors address Christian texts and traditions that were time and again changed through translation—a process of “turning around” as conveyed in Classical Nahuatl. Through an examination of ways Christian terms and practices were made, remade, and negotiated by both missionaries and native authors and audiences, the amount shows the conversion of indigenous peoples as an ongoing process influenced by what native societies sought, understood, or accepted.

The volume includes a rapprochement of methodologies and assumptions employed in history, anthropology, and religion and combines the acuity of of methodologies drawn from philology and historical linguistics with the contextualizing force of the ethnohistory and social history of Spanish and Portuguese The united states.

Contributors: Claudia Brosseder, Louise M. Burkhart, Mark Christensen, John F. Chuchiak IV, Abelardo de los angeles Cruz, Gregory Haimovich, Kittiya Lee, Ben Leeming, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, Frauke Sachse, Garry Sparks

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