Urdimbre y Trama, Revista Mexicana de Religiosidad Popular
Christ, the cross and the resurrection from the indigenous worldview expressed in its contemporary popular religiosity
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.
About canals, rivers and saints in San Juanico Nextipac, Iztapalapa
San Juanico Nextipac is one of the 16 original urban towns of the Iztapalapa mayor's office whose pre-Hispanic origin is identified in its place names in Nahuatl which means "on the ashes". However, this town is not only on the ashes but also over centuries relation to water. Its geographical location to the east of Mexico City, in a space that was formerly the Iztapalapa peninsula, allowed this town to be a place where its inhabitants had access to water from canals, rivers, springs and artesian wells. With this, a lake culture was configured throughout the centuries, from its foundation to the present day, the strongest links were the economic occupation of the population in the chinampas and the commercial circuits that derived from it, as well as the worldview with water; this last relationship can still be identified in the saints venerated by the Nextipecos, despite the intubation of the Churubusco river, the drying up of canal de la Viga, and the closure of artesian wells.
Ritual and Tradition. Ceremonial in the Culture of Xochiojca, Veracruz
In the community of Xochiojca, Veracruz, being a mayordomo is a privilege, since the stewardship of the patronal festival is the ritual space where the inhabitants practice the highest values that identify them as a people, it is where social capital is fostered and cultivated, but above all, it is where the inhabitants give meaning to community life by encountering the Divine. Throughout the months prior to the patronal festival, the mayordomos carry out various activities in favor of their position. For example, the attending general meetings of all the mayordomos that are held each month, where they are spiritually prepared for good performance. This makes clear the high level of his position, which denotes the seriousness and responsibility implicit in assuming this type of community deles. The responsibilities inherent in belonging to these organizational corporations continue throughout the year until reaching the culminating stage of this stewardship in the month of November, when from the first days of this month the preparations that involve the participation of the entire community.
Festival of San Diego de Alcala, an example of popular religiosity and social organization
n this essay we start from the historical assumption in which the event of the Conquest forged the development of the native communities for the formation of their own cultural identity. Seen the aforementioned in a phenomenological way, we find more than a domination, it is a syncretism. The communities currently represent an intercultural and temporal dialogue that, when manifested in religious celebrations, give expression to a cultural identity of rich mixture and integration, forming an authenticity. In the community of Calvario, located in Quiroga, Michoacán, the day of san Diego de Alcala is celebrated from November 13 to 15, one of the biggest festivals of the town and of which we find the cultural vestiges of an ancient conversation between cultures pre-Hispanic, Catholic religiosity and Europeanism. This festival represents beyond any celebration, a social organization in which the indigenous community consolidates its strength and social cohesion through religious symbolic expressions.
Obedience, Digitization and Hope. Testimonies of a tradition that stopped
This text is part of a comprehensive non-profit project to approach, document and disseminate Holy Week in San Pedro Cuajimalpa, and its objective is to: Give a voice to the inhabitants of this community. Show some testimonies of obedience, reflection, hope and faith, given the suspension of activities in 2020 due to the appearance of the SARS-Cov2 virus. Share part of the development of some of the activities that were carried out before this pandemic. Question the existence of a digital religious community.
Patronal Festival Saint Francis of Assisi “The Wounded Seraph”. A Proposal for an Inculturated Liturgical Celebration
This contribution is a ceremonial proposal for the patronal feast of san Francisco de Assis. The community exists, the celebration also. Based on the pastoral work carried out for years in this community, this celebration of inculturated liturgy is proposed, rescuing the elements most valued by the people of Mayan origin and that are already used in local ceremonial life. It is therefore a proposal for a practical approach to a ceremonial in the creative context of the inculturated liturgy
Popular religiosity for the Catholic Church
In the history of the Church we find different ways of living the faith, in that constant path the Church itself encounters new expressions of Faith that do not necessarily follow the rigor of what is already prescribed by the same Church. This doesn´t mean that they go against it, but rather that, in the historical journey of the magisterium, it has been understood that these are expressions of God who lives and walks in the midst of his people. The magisterium has tried to reflect and respond to these new revelations. Specifically, in the history of the Church in Latin America, this topic has been reflected upon to shed light on these popular expressions of faith. In this paper we start from a general reflection of positive assessment of popular religiosity and we present an extract of what the general conferences of Celam have expressed regarding popular religiosity or related terms.
Nicanquimatizque (here it will be known)
In this text we will approach to the Nahuatl indigenous source of the Mexican Songs as a comparative source for the literary environment of the Nican Mopohua, making an analogy with it. We are going to deal with explicit texts and key words that have points of contact between these two literary texts, revealing a literary context with certain conventions in language management and the transmission of sublime ideas. We will see the importance that they have to make observations of the cultural context and to have a critical eye regarding the Nahuatl historical-cultural context of the time in which the Guadalupan Event is circumscribed.
Culture as a Religious Conception and Religious Manifestation
The culture view as human formation generate social interaction structures, where the individuality can be seen as a manifestation a diverse and multiply forms. Think in the concept of human as a geographic and social structures open a door to think on religiosity as a constituent form of believes and symbols called rituals, those can be reflected in what we are gone to call culture.
Tabula Rasa or Symbolic Reformulation? Syncretic Processes: An Alternate Perspective of Historical Analysis to the Official One
This article addresses the dialectic and complex cultural syncretism process in Mexico. This paper will depart from the premise that every cultural manifestation results from transformations and creative adaptations each society carries out to address problems or situations inherent to its context. The relevance of this theme lies in the need to unlock access routes to understanding diverse cultural phenomena that occur in Mexico, such as the Day of the Dead, patron saint festivities), the pilgrimage to the basilica of Guadalupe), among others manifestations that combine religion, indigenous worldviews, forms of the economic and social organization of communities. All these cultural phenomena show the great mosaic of traditions and customs in Mexico, which are the result of history and the transformation of each community within this country.
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