Catholic-Maya Sacrificial Commitments

IF 0.7 0 RELIGION Critical Research on Religion Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.1177/20503032221102449

Andrés Dapuez

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Abstract

In their annual festival in an eastern village of the Yucatan state, participants verbalized, discussed, and disputed two main understandings of Catholic commitment after a Catholic priest asked his parishioners to reconsider the effects of their ritual offerings. His teachings about compromiso signaled other ritualized practices, which compose the concept: promises and sacrifices. In direct contrast to the priest’s teachings, local ritualists understand that solemn promises and sacrificial exchange work, however, as encompassments of the notion of commitment. On the other hand, the priest’s notion of engagement with the sacred takes its main force from the representation of the work of dying of sacrificial victims. Overcoming an apparently insurmountable pair of opposites, ritual and sacrificial, he defines commitment as vicarious sacrifice, inaugurating for his audience a new representational dimension.

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天主教-玛雅祭祀承诺

在尤卡坦州东部一个村庄举行的一年一度的节日上，在一位天主教牧师要求他的教区居民重新考虑他们的仪式供品的影响之后，参与者对天主教承诺的两种主要理解进行了口头表达、讨论和争论。他关于妥协的教导暗示了其他仪式化的做法，这些做法构成了承诺和牺牲的概念。与牧师的教导形成鲜明对比的是，当地的仪式主义者明白，庄严的承诺和祭祀交换是承诺概念的一部分。另一方面，牧师与神圣接触的概念主要来自于祭祀受害者死亡的表现。他克服了仪式和牺牲这一对显然不可逾越的对立面，将承诺定义为替代的牺牲，为他的观众开创了一个新的表征维度。

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Critical Research on Religion RELIGION-

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期刊介绍： Critical Research on Religion is a peer-reviewed, international journal focusing on the development of a critical theoretical framework and its application to research on religion. It provides a common venue for those engaging in critical analysis in theology and religious studies, as well as for those who critically study religion in the other social sciences and humanities such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literature. A critical approach examines religious phenomena according to both their positive and negative impacts. It draws on methods including but not restricted to the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, Marxism, post-structuralism, feminism, psychoanalysis, ideological criticism, post-colonialism, ecocriticism, and queer studies. The journal seeks to enhance an understanding of how religious institutions and religious thought may simultaneously serve as a source of domination and progressive social change. It attempts to understand the role of religion within social and political conflicts. These conflicts are often based on differences of race, class, ethnicity, region, gender, and sexual orientation – all of which are shaped by social, political, and economic inequity. The journal encourages submissions of theoretically guided articles on current issues as well as those with historical interest using a wide range of methodologies including qualitative, quantitative, and archival. It publishes articles, review essays, book reviews, thematic issues, symposia, and interviews.