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Maya Christians and their churches in sixteenth-century Belize / Elizabeth Graham.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Maya studiesPublication details: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 434 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813040721
  • 0813040728
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Maya Christians and their churches in sixteenth-century Belize.DDC classification:
  • 282/.7282089974209031 22
LOC classification:
  • F1435.3.R3 G73 2011eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)387231

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

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.

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.