Indigenous apostles : : Maya Catholic catechists working the word in highland Chiapas / / Ruth J. Chojnacki.
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 global market...
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| Superior document: | No. 46 of Studies in world Christianity and interreligious relations |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2010. |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (205 pages) :; illustrations, maps. |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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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.