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

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

Indigenous Apostles 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 glob...

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Main Author: Chojnacki, Ruth J.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010.

Series: Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations 46.
Rodopi Religion, Theology and Philosophy Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357938.

Subjects:

Catholic Church > Missions > Mexico > Chiapas Highlands.
Catholic Church.
Indians of Mexico > Missions > Mexico > Chiapas Highlands.
Indians of Mexico > Missions.
Missions.
Mexico > Chiapas Highlands.

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Call Number: BV2835.2 .C46 2010eb

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Acknowledgements
  • Orthographic Note
  • Introduction
  • Contexts and Conversion: Origins of an Ecclesial Cargo
  • Constructing Highland Mission: Proposals and Problematics
  • Position and Place: Church, State, and Mission on the Ground
  • Proclaiming Religion, Reclaiming Land: History, Cognition and Religious Change
  • Working the Word: Constructing a Tzotzil Maya Theology
  • Decolonizing the Saints: From Myth to History
  • Doing What the Apostles Did
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names.