This work provides a cultural interpretation of the overall impact of the Catholic Reformation in Europe on the changing facets of the religious life in the indigenous communities of southern Mexico, during the 16th and 17th centuries. It studies the modes by which Spanish mendicant priests translated norms, standards and mores enforced by the Tridentine dogma into the far-removed contexts of the New World. Using both Spanish and Maya colonial sources, the book examines Dominican preaching, local cosmology and the state of faith in the area, as well as the changing ritual practices that...