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Maya Christians and their churches in sixteenth-century Belize /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Graham, Elizabeth A., 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2011]
Series:Maya studies.
Subjects:
Social archaeology > Belize.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Belize.
Christianity and other religions > Belize > 16th century.
Indian Catholics > Belize > History > 16th century.
Mayas > Belize > Antiquities.
Mayas > Missions > Belize.
Mayas > Belize > Religion.
Franciscans > Missions > Belize > History > 16th century.
Belize > Antiquities.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The view from Belize and the vision from St. Mike's
  • Yucatan and Belize on the eve of conquest
  • Chesse and terms
  • Being Christian and the doctrine of the church
  • The environment of early contact
  • The millennial kingdom and Belize missions
  • How to tell a church
  • The churches at Tipu and Lamanai
  • Reductions and upheaval in the seventeenth century
  • What Europe did for us
  • Being pagan
  • Everyone knows what a dragon looks like
  • Appendix 1. Friars in Belize
  • Appendix 2. Bishops of Yucatan to 1714.