The Americas' first theologies : early sources of post-contact indigenous religion
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The Americas' first theologies : early sources of post-contact indigenous religion
（American Academy of Religion religion in translation series）
Oxford University Press, c2017
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Theologia Indorum
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Includes an English translation of the K'iche' version of the Theologia Indorum, written by the Dominican friar Domingo de Vico
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Theologia Indorum by Dominican friar Domingo de Vico was the first Christian theology written in the Americas. Made available in English translation for the first time, Americas' First Theologies presents a selection of exemplary sections from the Theologia Indorum that illustrate Friar Vico's doctrine of god, cosmogony, moral anthropology, understanding of natural law and biblical history, and constructive engagement with pre-Hispanic
Maya religion. Rather than merely condemn the Maya religion, Vico appropriated local terms and images from Maya mythology and rituals that he thought could convey Christianity. His attempt at translating, if not reconfiguring, Christianity for a Maya readership required his mastery of not only numerous Mayan languages but also
the highly poetic ceremonial rhetoric of many indigenous Mesoamerican peoples.
This book also includes translations of two other pastoral texts and parts of a songbook and a catechism. These texts, written in Highland Mayan languages by fellow Dominicans, demonstrate the wider influence of Vico's ethnographic approach shared by a particular school of Dominicans. Altogether, The Americas' First Theologies provides a rich documentary case example of the translation, reception, and reaction to Christian thought in the indigenous Americas.
Table of Contents
Forward by Robert M. Carmack
Introduction
Chapter One: Domingo de Vico's "Theology 'for' or 'of' the Indians"
Vico's Theologia Indorum (1553 and 1554)
Chapter Two: Other Dominican Lessons in Highland Mayan Languages - Spoken and Sung
Coplas of Friar Luis de Cancer, O.P.
Doctrina christiana en lengua quiche by Friar Damian Delgado, O.P.
Chapter Three: Highland Maya Theological Production
Popol Wuj (ca.1554-ca.1558), folio 1 recto
Title of Totonicapan (ca.1554), folios 1-7
Xpantzay Cartulary I (ca.1552)
Title of the Tamub' I (1580)
Title of Santa Clara La Laguna (1583)
Title of the Tamub' III (1592)
Title of the Ilokab' (ca.1592)
Xpantzay Cartulary VI (ca.1658)
Another Colophon
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Index
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