Maya Christians and their churches in sixteenth-century Belize
By: Elizabeth Graham
Series: Maya studies; Maya studies
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780813036663
Subjects: Missions; Indian Catholics; Antiquities; Social archaeology; Religion; Franciscans; Mayas; Excavations (Archaeology); Christianity and other religions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-414) and index.
Table of contents: title: The view from Belize and the vision from St. Mike's; title: Yucatan and Belize on the eve of conquest; title: Chesse and terms; title: Being Christian and the doctrine of the church; title: The environment of early contact; title: The millennial kingdom and Belize missions; title: How to tell a church; title: The churches at Tipu and Lamanai; title: Reductions and upheaval in the seventeenth century; title: What Europe did for us; title: Being pagan; title: Everyone knows what a dragon looks like; title: Appendix 1. Friars in Belize; title: Appendix 2. Bishops of Yucatan to 1714.