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The Teabo Manuscript
Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatán
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477310816
Pub Date: December 13th, 2016
Format: Hardcover
339 Pages
Presenting the first English translation and analysis of a recently discovered late colonial Maya Christian manuscript, this volume opens important new insights into how the Maya made sense of Christianity within their own worldview.
The Burden of the Ancients
Maya Ceremonies of World Renewal from the Pre-columbian Period to the Present
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477310267
Pub Date: October 11th, 2016
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
Drawing on a wealth of evidence that ranges from Pre-Columbian texts to ethnographic accounts of contemporary rituals, a leading scholar traces the extensive continuity of pre-Hispanic elements in Maya ceremonies of world renewal.
Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between
Murals of the Colonial Andes
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781477309551
Pub Date: May 24th, 2016
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
This first comprehensive English-language study of the church-wall paintings created in Peru’s Cuzco region from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries unveils the complex intersections of religious artists, indigenous congregants, and colon
Native Evangelism in Central Mexico
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781477307618
Pub Date: August 15th, 2014
Format: Paperback
213 Pages
A foundational work by a revered pioneer in the study of native evangelism, this book illuminates the psychological, theological, and pragmatic elements of conversion to two of Mexico’s pivotal Protestant evangelical sects, La Luz del Mundo and Amistad y
Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru
Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560-1650
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781477307588
Pub Date: June 1st, 2014
Format: Paperback
326 Pages
Drawing from Spanish ecclesiastic literature written in Quechua, the language of the Incas, Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru is the first detailed study of how the European sacrament of confession was implemented in the early modern context of the Ande
Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches
Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9781477302194
Pub Date: November 15th, 2013
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
Writing Brazilian women back into history, this book presents the first comprehensive study in English of how women experienced and understood their lives within the society created by the Portuguese imperial government and the colonial era Roman Catholic
Naked Truth
Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian Right
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780292735767
Pub Date: May 1st, 2012
Format: Paperback
348 Pages
Taking an unprecedented, counterintuitive look at America’s conflict over sexuality, Naked Truth reveals how the attack on the exotic dance industry by the activist Christian Right threatens the separation of church and state and undermines our civil libe
The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town
Revised Edition
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780292723986
Pub Date: April 1st, 2011
Format: Paperback
249 Pages
This classic study of cultural continuity and change in an indigenous Guatemalan community is now updated to reveal how the forces of globalization are shredding the very fabric of communal and religious life.
Escaping the Fire
How an Ixil Mayan Pastor Led His People Out of a Holocaust During the Guatemalan Civil War
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780292722842
Pub Date: March 1st, 2010
Format: Paperback
244 Pages
An arresting firsthand account of how a Mayan evangelist pastor led his fellow Mayas out of their guerilla-controlled homeland and into the hands of the government army during the Guatemalan civil war.
Adoring the Saints
Fiestas in Central Mexico
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 9780292725751
Pub Date: November 1st, 2009
Format: Paperback
219 Pages
A comprehensive study of two intimately linked patron saint fiestas in Central Mexico.
The Teabo Manuscript
Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatán
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477310816
Pub Date: December 13th, 2016
Format: Hardcover
339 Pages
The Burden of the Ancients
Maya Ceremonies of World Renewal from the Pre-columbian Period to the Present
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477310267
Pub Date: October 11th, 2016
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between
Murals of the Colonial Andes
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781477309551
Pub Date: May 24th, 2016
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
Native Evangelism in Central Mexico
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781477307618
Pub Date: August 15th, 2014
Format: Paperback
213 Pages
Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru
Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560-1650
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781477307588
Pub Date: June 1st, 2014
Format: Paperback
326 Pages
Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches
Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9781477302194
Pub Date: November 15th, 2013
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
Naked Truth
Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian Right
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780292735767
Pub Date: May 1st, 2012
Format: Paperback
348 Pages
The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town
Revised Edition
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780292723986
Pub Date: April 1st, 2011
Format: Paperback
249 Pages
Escaping the Fire
How an Ixil Mayan Pastor Led His People Out of a Holocaust During the Guatemalan Civil War
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780292722842
Pub Date: March 1st, 2010
Format: Paperback
244 Pages
Adoring the Saints
Fiestas in Central Mexico
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 9780292725751
Pub Date: November 1st, 2009
Format: Paperback
219 Pages