The impact of Christianity on colonial Maya, ancient Mexico, China, and Japan
Subtitle: how a monotheistic religion was received by several pagan societies
By: Shinji Yamase ; with a foreword by Robert M. Carmack.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780773451452
Subjects: Christianity and other religions; Christianity -- Influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Maya religion : as one of the pagan religions; title: Problems of Maya sources; title: Maya religions, dualism, and the universe : their differences from Christianity; title: Religion as a part of the universe : the case study of the 'religious fusion' between the Yucatec Maya religion and Christianity; title: Christian discovery of pagan religions; title: The birth ofChristianity and its difference from the pagan religions; title: The Spanish spiritual conquest of the new world; title: Spanish version of Christianity in the new worlds; title: Christianity from a world perspective of; title: The confrontation between dualism and monism : process of its localization; title: Nahuatl discovery of Christianity; title: Inca discovery of Christianity; title: In defence of Christianity : chinese discovery of Christianity; title: Japanese discovery of Christianity and the development of "Christianity made in Japan" : the Christian Lord as a vassal of the living God = The Japanese emperor, 1873-1945; title: Maya perspective of Christianity I : the Popol Vvuh; title: It's authenticity; title: Conceptual difference among translations of the Popol Vuh.