ABSTRACT
The indigenous Maya communities of Guatemala and Southern Mexico vividly manifest the reconciliation process as a camino or road to restoration and reparation of cultures surviving the ravages of colonialism and the forces of globalization in order to create a sustainable future. Mayan cultural identity is complexities by the diverse range of participants in the Pan-Maya movement: faces of localized community activists and traditionalist religious leaders. The movement explores those Mayan intellectuals navigating new political waters; the international exile and refugee communities still abroad in the Americas and Europe. Mayan Catholicism transmits the impulse of Mayan spirituality, affirms cultural identity, and yet remains conservative in commitment to a protective Church. The history of the Church Diocese of El Quiche is bloodied with martyrs yet deeply rooted in Mayan Catholicism. Second-generation Christian liberation theologies in Latin America, Africa and the Philippines affirmed the humanity of the voiceless and anonymous, and seriously approached the cosmovisiones of indigenous people with respect and solidarity.
