Christ, the cross and the resurrection from the indigenous worldview expressed in its contemporary popular religiosity

Abstract

Christ, as a character of the Sacred order, was inserted into the American indigenous religious traditions in harmony and congruence with the local sensitivity of ancestral understanding of the sacred realm and the human way of communication with that transcendent dimension. For this reason, we resort to the terms of symbolic reformulation or cultural resemantization, to try to explain a cultural and religious process that occurred in the midst of great intercultural complexity, aggravated by the violence exerted physically and symbolically on the native population. In one way or another, a "local translation" of Christianity was achieved from the different indigenous groups that actively integrated the new sacred entities proposed by Christianity into their ancestral religious traditions, achieving a religious synthesis that has been consecrated as indigenous Christianity.