This course focuses on the profound cultural and symbolic continuities and changes of religious myths and rituals in Latin America from its Mesoamerican past. Tracing religious texts and practices from the Pre-Colombian era, through colonialism and postcolonialism, and through the present, this course studies how religion shapes literary and cultural production. We will study indigenous Latin American texts from the Aztec and Maya and representations of religious practices in the writings of the Conquistadors, as well as major texts by key colonial religious figures. Throughout the course...