Nancy Farriss

Tongues of Fire

Language and Evangelization in Colonial Mexico

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Produktbeschreibung

Tongues of Fire investigates the role played by language and translation in the creation of Mexican Christianity during the first centuries of colonial rule. Nancy Farriss analyzes how native elites, acting as translators and parish administrators, served to make evangelization an indigenous enterprise, and the new Mexican church an indigenous one.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9780190884109
• ISBN-10: 019088410X
• Artikelnr.: 51967809

Autorenporträt

Nancy Farriss has dedicated a half century to studying the history of the church in Mexico and the history and religion of the indigenous populations of Yucatan and Oaxaca. She is currently retired from teaching colonial Latin American History and Ethnohistory at the University of Pennsylvania and divides her residence between Philadelphia and Oaxaca.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One. Language Contact and Language Policy
Chapter One. Signs and Gestures
Chapter Two. Interpreters
Chapter Three. Confusion of Tongues
Part Two. Evangelization in the Vernacular
Chapter Four. Language Barriers under Siege
Chapter Five. Speaking the Word of God
Part Three. The Means and the Message
Chapter Six. Catechists and Catechism
Chapter Seven. The Word of God
Part Four. Lost and Found in Translation
Chapter Eight. The Problem of Meaning
Chapter Nine. Adoptions and Adaptations
Chapter Ten. The Art of Persuasion
Conclusion. Doctrinal Legacies
Chapter Eleven. Continuity and Convergence
Notes
Bibliography