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Tongues of Fire : Language and Evangelization in Colonial Mexico by Farriss, Nancy M. (nancy Marguerite) , 1938- (author.) is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Tongues of Fire : Language and Evangelization in Colonial Mexico about?
Tongues of Fire investigates the role played by language and translation in the creation of Mexican Christianity during the first centuries of colonial rule. Nancy Farriss analyzes how native elites, acting as translators and parish administrators, served to make evangelization an indigenous enterprise, and the new Mexican church an indigenous one.
Who reads Tongues of Fire : Language and Evangelization in Colonial Mexico?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Farriss, Nancy M. (nancy Marguerite) , 1938- (author.)
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190884123
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- History, Historical Fiction, Christian
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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