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Author: Mark Z. Christensen Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 080619135X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 253
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The Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, the Final Judgment: the Apocalypse is central to Christianity and has evolved throughout Christianity’s long history. Thus, when ecclesiastics brought the Apocalypse to Indigenous audiences in the Americas, both groups adapted it further, reflecting new political and social circumstances. The religious texts in Aztec and Maya Apocalypses, many translated for the first time, provide an intriguing picture of this process—revealing the influence of European, Aztec, and Maya worldviews on portrayals of Doomsday by Spanish priests and Indigenous authors alike. The Apocalypse and Christian eschatology played an important role in the conversion of the Indigenous population and often appeared in the texts and sermons composed for their consumption. Through these writings from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century—priests’ “official” texts and Indigenous authors’ rendering of them—Mark Z. Christensen traces Maya and Nahua influences, both stylistic and substantive, while documenting how extensively Old World content and meaning were absorbed into Indigenous texts. Visions of world endings and beginnings were not new to the Indigenous cultures of America. Christensen shows how and why certain formulations, such as the Fifteen Signs of Doomsday, found receptive audiences among the Maya and the Aztec, with religious ramifications extending to the present day. These translated texts provide the opportunity to see firsthand the negotiations that ecclesiastics and Indigenous people engaged in when composing their eschatological treatises. With their insights into how various ecclesiastics, Nahuas, and Mayas preached, and even understood, Catholicism, they offer a uniquely detailed, deeply informed perspective on the process of forming colonial religion.
Author: Mark Z. Christensen Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 080619135X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 253
Book Description
The Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, the Final Judgment: the Apocalypse is central to Christianity and has evolved throughout Christianity’s long history. Thus, when ecclesiastics brought the Apocalypse to Indigenous audiences in the Americas, both groups adapted it further, reflecting new political and social circumstances. The religious texts in Aztec and Maya Apocalypses, many translated for the first time, provide an intriguing picture of this process—revealing the influence of European, Aztec, and Maya worldviews on portrayals of Doomsday by Spanish priests and Indigenous authors alike. The Apocalypse and Christian eschatology played an important role in the conversion of the Indigenous population and often appeared in the texts and sermons composed for their consumption. Through these writings from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century—priests’ “official” texts and Indigenous authors’ rendering of them—Mark Z. Christensen traces Maya and Nahua influences, both stylistic and substantive, while documenting how extensively Old World content and meaning were absorbed into Indigenous texts. Visions of world endings and beginnings were not new to the Indigenous cultures of America. Christensen shows how and why certain formulations, such as the Fifteen Signs of Doomsday, found receptive audiences among the Maya and the Aztec, with religious ramifications extending to the present day. These translated texts provide the opportunity to see firsthand the negotiations that ecclesiastics and Indigenous people engaged in when composing their eschatological treatises. With their insights into how various ecclesiastics, Nahuas, and Mayas preached, and even understood, Catholicism, they offer a uniquely detailed, deeply informed perspective on the process of forming colonial religion.
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1583487875 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 150
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Si hubiera podido elegir el lugar de mi nacimiento, habría elegido una sociedad de una magnitud limitada por la extensión de las facultades humanas, es decir, por la posibilidad de ser bien gobernada, y donde cada uno al cumplir suficientemente su empleo, nadie habría estado obligado de encomendar a otros las funciones que estaban a su cargo un Estado donde todos los particulares por conocerse entre ellos, no habrían podido sustraer a las miradas y al juicio del público las maniobras oscuras del vicio ni la modestia de la virtud, y donde esta buena costumbre de verse y de conocerse hace del amor a la patria el amor entre los ciudadanos, más que el amor a la tierra. Hubiera querido nacer en un país donde el soberano y el pueblo no pudiesen tener más que un solo y común interés, a fin de que todos los movimientos de la máquina no tendiesen más que al bien común lo que no pudiendo lograse a menos que el pueblo y el soberano sean una misma persona, se sigue que habría querido nacer bajo un gobierno democrático sabiamente atemperado. Habría querido vivir y morir libre, es decir, de tal manera que nadie pudiese sacudir el honorable yugo. Ese yugo saludable y suave que las cabezas más altivas llevan más dócilmente en tanto no están hechas para llevar ningún otro. Hubiera querido que nadie en el Estado hubiese podido ponerse por encima de la ley, y que nadie desde fuera hubiese podido imponer una que el Estado estuviese obligado a reconocer. Pues cualquiera que fuese la constitución de un gobierno, si se hallase un solo hombre que no estuviese sometido a la ley, todos los otros estarían necesariamente a merced de él y si hubiese un jefe nacional y otro jefe extranjero, cualquier partición de autoridad que pudiesen hacer, sería imposible que ni uno ni otro fuesen obedecidos y que el Estado estuviese bien gobernado.' Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Author: Charles V. Heath Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803269676 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 232
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