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South and Meso-American native spirituality : from the cult of the feathered serpent to the theology of liberation / edited by Gary H. Gossen in collaboration with Miguel León-Portilla.

Contributor(s): Gossen, Gary H | León Portilla, Miguel
Material type: TextTextSeries: World spirituality: v. 4.Publisher: New York : Crossroad, 1993Description: xii, 563 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0824516621 (pbk.)Subject(s): Indians -- Religion | Indians -- History | Latin America -- Church history | Syncretism (Religion) -- Latin America | Latin America -- Social life and customsBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Those made worthy by divine sacrifice : the faith of ancient Mexico / Miguel León-Portilla -- The Mayan faith / Munro S. Edmonson -- Andean religion at the time of the conquest / Manuel M. Marzal -- Indians and theologians : sixteenth-century Spanish theologians and their concept of the indigenous soul / Elsa Cecilia Frost -- Transplanted Spanish Catholicism / Manuel M. Marzal -- Aztec spirituality and Nahuatized Christianity / J. Jorge Klor de Alva -- The cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico / Louise M. Burkhart -- The Tzeltal Maya-Christian synthesis / Eugenio Maurer Avalos -- The Christian era of the Yucatec Maya / Manuel Gutiérrez Estévez -- The last time the Inca came back : messianism and nationalism in the Great Rebellion of 1780-1783 / Jan Szemiński -- Huichol cosmogony : how the world was destroyed by a flood and dog-woman gave birth to the human race / Peter T. Furst.
The faith of the real people : the Lacandon of the Chiapas rain forest / Didier Boremanse -- The Mapuche of Chile : their religious beliefs and rituals / Louis C. Faron -- A visit to a Bribri shaman / Marcos Guevara-Berger -- "I am black jaguar!" : magical spells and shamanism of the Pemon of southern Venezuela / Peter T. Furst -- On the human condition and the moral order : a testimony from the Chamula Tzotzil of Chiapas, Mexico / Gary H. Gossen -- Popular faith in Brazil / Carlos Rodrigues Brandão -- Santería or Orisha religion : an old religion in a new world / Julio Sánchez Cárdenas -- Life of the heart : a Maya Protestant spirituality / David G. Scotchmer -- Guerrilleros, political saints, and the theology of liberation / Mary Christine Morkovsky.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"A Crossroad Herder book."

Those made worthy by divine sacrifice : the faith of ancient Mexico / Miguel León-Portilla -- The Mayan faith / Munro S. Edmonson -- Andean religion at the time of the conquest / Manuel M. Marzal -- Indians and theologians : sixteenth-century Spanish theologians and their concept of the indigenous soul / Elsa Cecilia Frost -- Transplanted Spanish Catholicism / Manuel M. Marzal -- Aztec spirituality and Nahuatized Christianity / J. Jorge Klor de Alva -- The cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico / Louise M. Burkhart -- The Tzeltal Maya-Christian synthesis / Eugenio Maurer Avalos -- The Christian era of the Yucatec Maya / Manuel Gutiérrez Estévez -- The last time the Inca came back : messianism and nationalism in the Great Rebellion of 1780-1783 / Jan Szemiński -- Huichol cosmogony : how the world was destroyed by a flood and dog-woman gave birth to the human race / Peter T. Furst.

The faith of the real people : the Lacandon of the Chiapas rain forest / Didier Boremanse -- The Mapuche of Chile : their religious beliefs and rituals / Louis C. Faron -- A visit to a Bribri shaman / Marcos Guevara-Berger -- "I am black jaguar!" : magical spells and shamanism of the Pemon of southern Venezuela / Peter T. Furst -- On the human condition and the moral order : a testimony from the Chamula Tzotzil of Chiapas, Mexico / Gary H. Gossen -- Popular faith in Brazil / Carlos Rodrigues Brandão -- Santería or Orisha religion : an old religion in a new world / Julio Sánchez Cárdenas -- Life of the heart : a Maya Protestant spirituality / David G. Scotchmer -- Guerrilleros, political saints, and the theology of liberation / Mary Christine Morkovsky.

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