Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Standing at the historic center of Cholula, Mexico, is a Spanish medieval Catholic church built over a decidedly larger ancient Aztec pyramid, memorializing the latter’s conquest under the power of the cross. In the art of inculturation, the sign of the “vanquished pyramid” and its resonances in postcolonial cultures of the Global South, kindle the interpretive impulse to drill down on religio-cultural layers that had been silenced by the sentence of colonial missionary history. To cause muted signs to speak anew, the study employs a creative analytical approach known as the “Rashomon Effect” to hold divergent voices in dialectical tension so that a truly reconciling inculturation becomes a promise and a possibility through a pilgrimage of truth-telling.
Author: Antonio D. Sison
Institution: Catholic Theological Union
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4409012596