TY  - BOOK
AU  - Graham,Elizabeth A.
TI  - Maya Christians and their churches in sixteenth-century Belize
T2  - Maya studies
SN  - 9780813040721
AV  - F1435.3.R3 G73 2011eb
U1  - 282/.7282089974209031 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Gainesville, FL
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Franciscans
KW  - Missions
KW  - Belize
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - fast
KW  - Mayas
KW  - Religion
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Indian Catholics
KW  - Christianity and other cultures
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Social archaeology
KW  - Antiquités
KW  - Catholiques issus des Peuples autochtones
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 16e siècle
KW  - Archéologie sociale
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Catholic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The view from Belize and the vision from St. Mike's -- Yucatan and Belize on the eve of conquest -- Chesse and terms -- Being Christian and the doctrine of the church -- The environment of early contact -- The millennial kingdom and Belize missions -- How to tell a church -- The churches at Tipu and Lamanai -- Reductions and upheaval in the seventeenth century -- What Europe did for us -- Being pagan -- Everyone knows what a dragon looks like -- Appendix 1. Friars in Belize -- Appendix 2. Bishops of Yucatan to 1714
N2  - Based on her analysis of archaeological evidence from the excavations of Maya churches at Tipu and Lamanai, Elizabeth Graham's book seeks to understand why the Maya sometimes actively embraced Catholicism during the period of European conquest and continued to worship in this way even after the end of the Spanish occupation
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