Translating religion and politics

[Kier Salmon]

AhA!   Thanks.

On Feb 11, 2011, at 6:39 AM, John F. Schwaller wrote:

> Certainly the development of written Nahuatl, using Latin  
> characters, began with efforts to convert the natives to  
> Christianity.  In the 16th century, however, the Catholic Church  
> prohibited the translation of the Bible into the vernacular.  Only  
> the Vulgate could be used.  Consequently, those friars who did  
> translate the Bible into Nahuatl ran into real trouble with the  
> Church.
>
> The best study on the difficulty of dealing with the nuance of  
> Christian theology in Nahuatl is still Louise Burkhart's _Slippery  
> Earth_
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