Indigenous apostles : Maya Catholic catechists working the word in highland Chiapas /

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Author / Creator:	Chojnacki, Ruth J.
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (205 pages) : maps.
Language:	English
Series:	No. 46 of Studies in world Christianity and interreligious relations Studies in world Christianity and interreligious relations ; no. 46.
Subject:	Catholic Church -- Missions -- Mexico -- Chiapas Highlands. Catholic Church. Indians of Mexico -- Missions -- Mexico -- Chiapas Highlands. Indians of Mexico -- Missions. Missions. Mexico -- Chiapas Highlands. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11213952

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ISBN:	9789042028739 9042028734
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Indigenous Aposties tells the story of conversion to Catholicism and birth of new ecclesial community with the arrival of Vatican II mission in Santa Maria Magdalenas, a Tzotzil-speaking village in Mexico's Maya highlands. In the state of Chiapas, the nation's erratic advance into the global market beginning in the 1970s drove landless young Magdaleneros to search for alternatives to peasant peonage. A few became catechists in the Diocese of San Cristobal de Las Casas. Cognitive entailments of newly-acquired biblical literacy warranted the subsequent critique of local Tzotzil tradition - costumbre - through which they reclaimed their ancestral land. This ethnographic account of their dialectical passage from the way of the ancestors to communion with the world Catholic Church demonstrates local constraints on liberation mission strategy and the power of indigenous agency in their own evangelization. It also points to the salience of place and everyday productive practice for native construction of local theology in the context of the new globalization. The author's considerable gift as a writer and admirable empathy with the subject and the different (and opposing) actors are two notable qualities that make "Indigenous Apostles" a compelling read. Revealing both the inner workings of Maya society and the research process of a superb mind, this book deserves the widest possible readership. Jean Meyer, Centre for Research and Teaching in Social Sciences, Mexico City. --Book Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Indigenous Apostles. Rodopi Bv Editions 2010 9789042028722

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Contexts and Conversion Origins of an Ecclesial Cargo
ch. 2 Constructing Highland Mission Proposals and Problematics
ch. 3 Position and Place Church, State, and Mission on the Ground
ch. 4 Proclaiming Religion, Reclaiming Land History, Cognition and Religious Change
ch. 5 Working the Word Constructing a Tzotzil Maya Theology
ch. 6 Decolonizing the Saints From Myth to History
ch. 7 Epilogue Doing What the Apostles Did.

Indigenous apostles : Maya Catholic catechists working the word in highland Chiapas /

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