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The Sun God and the Savior: The Christianization of the Nahua and Totonac in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico
University Press of Colorado, 2009 Paper: 978-1-60732-137-8 | Cloth: 978-0-87081-932-2 | eISBN: 978-0-87081-986-5 Library of Congress Classification F1221.N3S865 2009 Dewey Decimal Classification 207.20899707248
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The first English translation of Guy Stresser-Péan's tour-de-force presents two decades of fieldwork in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico, where native pre-Hispanic pagan beliefs blended with traditional Catholic evangelization from the sixteenth century and the more recent intrusion of modernism. See other books on: Christianity and culture | Christianity and other religions | Missions | Religious life and customs | Rites and ceremonies See other titles from University Press of Colorado |
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The Sun God and the Savior: The Christianization of the Nahua and Totonac in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico
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University Press of Colorado, 2009
Paper: 978-1-60732-137-8
Cloth: 978-0-87081-932-2
eISBN: 978-0-87081-986-5
Paper: 978-1-60732-137-8
Cloth: 978-0-87081-932-2
eISBN: 978-0-87081-986-5
The first English translation of Guy Stresser-Péan's tour-de-force presents two decades of fieldwork in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico, where native pre-Hispanic pagan beliefs blended with traditional Catholic evangelization from the sixteenth century and the more recent intrusion of modernism.
The Indians of the Sierra Norte de Puebla are deeply devoted to Christianity, but their devotion is seamlessly combined with pagan customs, resulting in a hybrid belief system that is not wholly indigenous, yet not wholly Christian. The syncretism practiced here has led the Totonac and Nahua people to identify Christ with the Sun God, a belief expressed symbolically in ritual practices such as the Dance of the Voladores.
Spanning the four centuries from the earliest systematic campaign against Nahua ritual practices - Zumárraga's idolatry trials of 1536-1540 - to the twentieth century, Stresser-Péan contextualizes Nahua and Totonac ritual practices as a series of responses to Christian evangelization and the social reproduction of traditional ritual practices. The Sun God and the Savior is a monumental work on the ethnographic and historical knowledge of the peoples of the Sierra Norte.
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