One of the features which are usually identified with the rise of modernity in indigenous societies is the process of erosion that has suffered from various parts of the traditional religiosity, both in the sense of a gradual abandonment of the concepts and practices that the Church once were somehow "superstitious" or "pagan", and in the loss of the monopoly at a time from Catholicism to the advantage of the various Protestant denominations, and finally into that of a progressive secularization. The weakening of traditional models such an outcome would seem forced. However, just in the religious Catholic, indigenous communities Mesoamerican (and others) were able to take advantage of new wide leeway granted to them by the miraculous phenomenon of renewal that was the Second Vatican Council, after which the Church has decided to deal with different cultures and religious traditions, promoting the development of the "seeds of the Word" in which they would be everywhere present. Through an examination of ethnographic materials collected in recent years in the Sierra de Puebla, the article shows how to indigenous Mexicans is now possible to be involved in a reshaping of their Catholicism that passes through a free actualization of the ancient indigenous religions: the examples tocchano the liturgy, the main symbols and the same sacred texts.
Una delle caratteristiche che solitamente si identificano con l’imporsi della modernità nelle società indigene è il processo di erosione che da varie parti ha subìto la religiosità tradizionale, sia nel senso di un graduale abbandono delle concezioni e delle pratiche che la Chiesa un tempo bollava come “superstiziose” o “pagane”, sia in quello della perdita del monopolio detenuto un tempo dal Cattolicesimo a vantaggio delle più varie confessioni protestanti, sia infine in quello di una progressiva secolarizzazione. L’indebolimento dei modelli tradizionali parrebbe così un esito obbligato. Tuttavia, proprio in ambito religioso cattolico, le comunità indigene mesoamericane (e non solo) hanno potuto giovarsi dei nuovi ampi margini d’azione concessi loro da quel prodigioso fenomeno di rinnovamento che è stato il Concilio Vaticano II, in seguito al quale la Chiesa ha deciso di confrontarsi con le diverse culture e tradizioni religiose, promuovendo la valorizzazione dei “semi del Verbo” che in esse sarebbero ovunque presenti. Attraverso l’esame di materiali etnografici raccolti negli ultimi anni nella Sierra di Puebla, l'articolo mostra come per gli indigeni messicani sia oggi possibile essere protagonisti di una riplasmazione del proprio Cattolicesimo che passa attraverso una libera attualizzazione delle antiche religioni autoctone: gli esempi tocchano la liturgia, i principali simboli e gli stessi testi sacri.
L’indianizzazione del Vangelo. I protagonisti della trasformazione postconciliare del cattolicesimo indigeno messicano / Lupo, Alessandro. - In: HUMANITAS. - ISSN 0018-7461. - STAMPA. - 67:(2012), pp. 809-832.
L’indianizzazione del Vangelo. I protagonisti della trasformazione postconciliare del cattolicesimo indigeno messicano
LUPO, Alessandro
2012
Abstract
One of the features which are usually identified with the rise of modernity in indigenous societies is the process of erosion that has suffered from various parts of the traditional religiosity, both in the sense of a gradual abandonment of the concepts and practices that the Church once were somehow "superstitious" or "pagan", and in the loss of the monopoly at a time from Catholicism to the advantage of the various Protestant denominations, and finally into that of a progressive secularization. The weakening of traditional models such an outcome would seem forced. However, just in the religious Catholic, indigenous communities Mesoamerican (and others) were able to take advantage of new wide leeway granted to them by the miraculous phenomenon of renewal that was the Second Vatican Council, after which the Church has decided to deal with different cultures and religious traditions, promoting the development of the "seeds of the Word" in which they would be everywhere present. Through an examination of ethnographic materials collected in recent years in the Sierra de Puebla, the article shows how to indigenous Mexicans is now possible to be involved in a reshaping of their Catholicism that passes through a free actualization of the ancient indigenous religions: the examples tocchano the liturgy, the main symbols and the same sacred texts.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.