Rationality of Language as a Boundary of a Religious Message in the Evangelization of the New World
The article poses a question on the real scope of the discursive religious agreement that was concluded as a result of an interaction between Christian evangelizers and peoples of Latin America. Contrary to a widespread opinion that it was not the use of a language but rather imagination which playe...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Catholic University of America Press
2022
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The catholic historical review
Year: 2022, Volume: 108, Issue: 2, Pages: 306-333 |
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Latin America
/ Catholic church
/ Mission (international law
/ Evangelization
/ Communication
/ Language
/ History 1500-1900
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBR Latin America KDB Roman Catholic Church RH Evangelization; Christian media RJ Mission; missiology |
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religion as a negotiated common symbolic sphere
B Millenarianism B Evangelization B Folk Catholicism B Latin America |
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| Summary: | The article poses a question on the real scope of the discursive religious agreement that was concluded as a result of an interaction between Christian evangelizers and peoples of Latin America. Contrary to a widespread opinion that it was not the use of a language but rather imagination which played a crucial role in evangelizing the nations of Latin America and which resulted in a cultural restructuration that blended the native heritage together with the elements introduced by the colonizers, this paper claims that the agreement, or the synthesis, was reached within a discursive thought. The conceptual frame for the research is provided by Jürgen Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action. |
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| ISSN: | 1534-0708 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic historical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cat.2022.0038 |