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 tangentially in these readings primarily through Christian ceremonial practice and theological frameworks rather than as a direct conceptual actor. The excerpts reference nativity rituals in Zinacantan (excerpts 1-2) and invoke Christian theology's capacity to absorb paradigm shifts like contact with extraterrestrial intelligence (excerpt 4), suggesting that the course uses Christological frameworks to examine how symbolic systems and institutional religion adapt to technological and epistemological disruption. His presence here illustrates how foundational religious narratives persist as structural templates for meaning-making in both premodern ceremonial systems and speculative futurism.
Mentioned in 4 readings
While all of these scenarios are interesting to contemplate, most compelling, and most discussed, is the problem of how the discovery of clear evidence of a signal from extraterrestrial intelligence would affect theology on Earth, even if n…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…
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