In this text, we present a conceptual argumentation about contemporary Mexican education, and we take as our starting point the consideration of the educational process as a cultural proposal for the organization of society. Our main objective focuses on showing the significant nature of this social action and on outlining in a general way the constitutive elements of this symbolic system.
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Now I would like to emphasize that current miraculous apparitions are part of new Weltanschauungs, based on native myths and on Christian apparitional myths as well. But at the same time they constitute wider and more ancient traditions (both Mesoamerican and Christian); they are new religious texts which are recycled and resignified in the present.
[Texto completo]It can be said that the central topic of this work by Marie-Odile Marion is the Lacandón group, subject to which she devoted most of her professional life. The work is as vast as it is deep and it discusses in a simple way –but with an elegant prose- the history of this ethnic group from its pre-Hispanic dynamic to modern times […]
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