BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Theology | Notre Dame Events//iCal 2.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Theology | Notre Dame Events METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240222T163303Z UID:event-298132 DTSTART:20240229T213000Z DTEND:20240229T223000Z CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Garry Sparks (Princeton University) will deliver the 2023–202 4 Cushwa Center Lecture\, “Five Hundred* Years of Mayanized Christianity : An Ethnohistory of the Americas’ First Theology\, the Theologia Indoru m.”\nAs early 2024 marks the 500th anniversary of the entrance of Europe ans into Guatemala and the introduction of Christianity there\, this lectu re will critically revisit Bartolomé de las Casas and his fellow Dominica ns including Domingo de Vico and Vico’sTheologia Indorum\, as well as th eir Indigenous interlocutors and the religious literature of the Highland Maya in the early decades of first contact.\nThis event is cosponsored by Notre Dame’s Department of History and Department of Theology.\nAbout th e speaker\n\nGarry Sparks is associate professor in the Department of Reli gion at Princeton University. His research focuses on ethnohistorical unde rstandings of theological production in the Americas\, critical histories of Christian thought\, religions of Indigenous peoples of the Americas\, r eligion in Latin America\, and theories of religion and culture.\nHe speci fically attends to the periods of first contact between Native Mesoamerica ns and Iberian missionaries in the 16th-century as well as current religio us movements like liberation theologies\, “Indian” theology (teología india)\, Latin American Protestantism\, and the revitalization of Indigen ous traditionalism. Sparks is editor and translator of The Americas’ Fir st Theologies: Early Sources of Post-Contact Indigenous Religion (Oxford\, 2017) and author of Rewriting Maya Religion: Domingo de Vico\, K’iche ’ Maya Intellectuals\, and the Theologia Indorum (University Press of Co lorado\, 2019).\nSparks’ research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the American Academy of Religion\, and the American Philosophical Society. He is currently working on a critical edi tion of the Library of Congress Kislak 1015 manuscript tentatively titled “Pastoral Fieldnotes: A Sixteenth-century Handbook from the Maya Highlan ds.” He is also coordinating critical translations into English and Span ish of the entire Theologia Indorum (“Theology for/of the Indians”) fr om Mayan-language manuscripts. \n\nImage: Codex Yanhuitlán\, folio 4v\, depicting two mixtec nobles and Domingo de Vico. José María Lafragua His torical Library\, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.\nOriginally published at cushwa.nd.edu. LOCATION:215–16 McKenna Hall SUMMARY:2024 Cushwa Center Lecture: “Five Hundred* Years of Mayanized Chr istianity” URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.nd.edu/events/2024/02/29/2024-cushwa-center-le cture-five-hundred-years-of-mayanized-christianity/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=TEXT/HTML:
Garry Sparks (Princeton University) will de liver the 2023–2024 Cushwa Center Lecture\, “Five Hundred* Years of Ma yanized Christianity: An Ethnohistory of the Americas’ First Theology\, the Theologia Indorum.”
\nAs early 2024 marks the 500th a nniversary of the entrance of Europeans into Guatemala and the introductio n of Christianity there\, this lecture will critically revisit Bartolomé de las Casas and his fellow Dominicans including Domingo de Vico and Vico ’sThe ologia Indorum\, as well as their Indigenous interlocutors and th e religious literature of the Highland Maya in the early decades of first contact.
\nThis event is cosponsored by Notre Dame’s Department of History and Department of Theology.
\nGarry Sparks is ass ociate professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. Hi s research focuses on ethnohistorical understandings of theological produc tion in the Americas\, critical histories of Christian thought\, religions of Indigenous peoples of the Americas\, religion in Latin America\, and t heories of religion and culture.
\nHe specifically attends to the pe
riods of first contact between Native Mesoamericans and Iberian missionari
es in the 16th-century as well as current religious movements like liberat
ion theologies\, “Indian” theology (teología india)\, Latin
American Protestantism\, and the revitalization of Indigenous traditionali
sm. Sparks is editor and translator of <
em>The Americas’ First Theologies: Early Sources of Post-Contact Indigen
ous Religion (Oxford\, 2017) and author of
Sparks’ research has received support from the National Endo wment for the Humanities\, the American Academy of Religion\, and the Amer ican Philosophical Society. He is currently working on a critical edition of the Library of Congress Kislak 1015 manuscript tentatively titled “Pa storal Fieldnotes: A Sixteenth-century Handbook from the Maya Highlands. ” He is also coordinating critical translations into English and Spanish of the entire Theologia Indorum (“Theology for/of the Indians ”) from Mayan-language manuscripts.
\nImage: Codex Yanhuitlán\, folio 4v\, depicting two mixtec nobles and Domingo de Vico. José María Lafragua Historical Library\, Ben emérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.
\nOriginally published at cushwa.nd.edu.
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