The period extending from December 15 to the last day of the Fiesta of San Sebastián on January 25 is the richest segment of the annual ceremonial calendar of Zinacantan. The complicated rituals that characterize this period dramatize the e…On December 23 the Mayordomos and their assistants construct an enormous and beautiful crèche in the church of San Lorenzo. The corners of the crèche are of large, freshly cut white pine boughs; the walls are of sugar cane, banana leaves, c…
Jesus Christ
historical · 6 mentions across 4 readings
In this course
Jesus Christ appears here primarily as a liturgical and iconographic reference point within indigenous Mesoamerican ritual practice, specifically the Zinacantan ceremonial calendar where nativity scenes structure temporal and spiritual experience. The course readings invoke him not as a theological subject but as a cultural figure whose symbolic presence organizes colonial and postcolonial systems of meaning—particularly in how European religious authority was negotiated, displaced, or absorbed within non-Western contexts that the course examines through questions of power, representation, and systemic order.
Mentioned in 4 readings
those who have recently provided reflections from within the Catholic tradition. McMullin related the problem to that faced by 16th century Europeans discovering the peoples of Mesoamerica. Fully aware of Thomas Paine’s objections to Christ…George Coyne, at the time Director of the Vatican Observatory, posed similar reservations about a definitive answer. He concluded that with the discovery of ETI “theologians must accept a serious responsibility to rethink some fundamental r…
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