Indigenous Leadership in the Church: The Experience of the Diocese of San Cristöbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
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Abstract
"The meetings of minds between missionaries and native leaders in the past mission history of the Church," writes Carl Starkloff, "have generally taken the form of 'power encounters' and contests, ... " In his significant work, A Theology of the In-Between, where Starkloff examines the history of "syncretism," he articulates his hope that in future encounters, "marginalization and identity conflicts suffered by local cultures at the hands of 'catholic' Christianity" will be avoided.! The recent experience of the indigenous communities in the diocese of San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, is an important case study of an encounter that engendered a new synthesis between the Catholic faith and indigenous cultures. Since the 1970s, the diocesan organizations in San Cristobal de Las Casas opened a new space for the participation of the indigenous communities in the leadership of the local church. In this paper, I will briefly examine the historical background and context of the shifts in ecclesiology and missiology that prepared the way for the emergence of the new indigenous leadership in this local church, describe the stages of its development, and mention some of its present challenges. and cultural diversity?
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".