Mass, Promises and Commitment in a village in Eastern Yucatan. Catholic Sacrifice at the Church’s Margin
Based on observation and participation in numerous cargo festivals in a town in the east of the state of Yucatan, this article concludes that the parishioners, self-proclaimed Catholic, and the Mexican Catholic Church use divergent but complementary notions of “commitment”, attributable to different...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Anales de Antropología |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/68169 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/antropologia/article/view/68169 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | commitment sacrifice eucharist Catholicism offerings. Compromiso Sacrificio Eucaristía Catolicismo Ofrendas. |
| Sumario: | Based on observation and participation in numerous cargo festivals in a town in the east of the state of Yucatan, this article concludes that the parishioners, self-proclaimed Catholic, and the Mexican Catholic Church use divergent but complementary notions of “commitment”, attributable to different sacrificial practices. To achieve a non-reductionist analysis of this concept it is necessary to incorporate some theological categories, such as “accommodation”. This text describes how both parties, Mayan-speaking parishioners and a Dominican priest, make a paradoxical accommodation of the sacrificial economy of the other, distorting it creatively. |
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