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Definire il pluralismo religioso

2020, Dal sincretismo all’inculturazione

Abstract

Starting from the ethnographic observation of what the followers of the current called Teología India (Indigenous Theology) perform in numerous native areas of Mexico, this article examines the transformation of the way in which a significant part of the Catholic clergy conceives and carries out their pastoral endeavor in native communities converted in more or less recent times. Following the doctrinal reorientation that emerged from the Second Vatican Council, the “exclusive” approach of the Church - which according to some scholars would preclude Christianity from opening towards cultural otherness - has given way to an innovative and clearly “inclusive” approach: on these new theological bases, traditions, symbols, cultic practices, values and even figures from the extra-human pre-Christian world are radically reinterpreted and can find acceptance.