Words Worlds Turned Around, Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America. Edited by David Tavárez with a forward by William B. Taylor. Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-60732-683-0 By Owen Jones

https://www.academia.edu/123564134/Words_Worlds_Turned_Around_Indigenous_Christianities_in_Colonial_Latin_America_Edited_by_David_Tav%C3%A1rez_with_a_forward_by_William_B_Taylor_Boulder_University_of_Colorado_Press_2017_ISBN_978_1_60732_683_0?rhid=37292830737&swp=rr-rw-wc-98349129&nav_from=2a6561e3-8cda-4a91-89ca-8c48e7b61e25 The edited volume, Words & Worlds Turned Around, Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America, offers a nuanced approach to agency in the production and negotiation of indigenous versions of Christianity. The essays in this volume help us to escape from the binary of conqueror and vanquished or missionary and convert and allow us to focus on ways that missionary friars and native filigrees assisted each other and collaborated to remake or rework new cosmologies that synthesized beliefs from European Christianities into traditional indigenous worldviews in the Americas. This shift in focus includes translations and interpretations of Christian concepts from European to indigenous languages and symbolic systems that applied to diverse indigenous groups throughout the Americas. Louise Burkhart's introductory essay contextualizes the chapters to follow in the larger debates in the field with a thorough historiography and theoretical framework that centers them in an epistemological scaffolding. William B. Taylor's forward provides anchor and gravitas to the volume. This book is divided into four parts, the first is entitled First Contacts, First Inventions. In BPerforming the Zaachila Word, the Dominican Invention of Zapotec Christianity,^David Tavárez asks and answers the question-how was Christianity or the Christian message disseminated and strategically translated into Zapotec worldviews and how was it received and re-interpreted by Zapotec lay-assistants and ...