La tierra en Chiapas, viejos problemas nuevos

En el presente libro se condensa una serie de trabajos discutidos en las sesiones que el seminario de investigación "Santos, devociones e identidades" de El Colegio Mexiquense, A.C celebró en 2017, con la participación de diversos investigadores del fenómeno religioso, procedentes de diferentes instituciones de educación superior del país. Los estudios que aquí se exponen explican, a la luz del examen histórico, antropológico y sociológico la manera en que la Iglesia católica ha conseguido adaptarse y sobrevivir al paso del tiempo, a través del fomento de los cultos...

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The Lingua Ignota, "brought forth" by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world. Noting her visionary metaphors, her music, and various medieval linguistic philosophies, Higley examines how the "Unknown Language" makes arid signifiers green again. This text, however, is too often seen in too narrow a context: glossolalia, angelic language, secret code. Higley provides an edition and English translation of its glosses in the Riesencodex (with assistance from the Berlin MS) , but also places it ...