However, the Mayan portrayal of Christianity in the work under consideration reveals a syncretic approach towards religion that is not imposed, indiscriminate or imitative, but rather, socio-politically subjective and personal. There is no denying the fact that the repressive regimes introduced Christianity in the Western Hemisphere as a tool to establish and justify the Spanish and Portuguese conquests. For a Guatemalan, Bible is, “not something you memorize, it’s not (something) just to be talked about and prayed about (Menchu 131)”, but is a credible and reliable mirror that is to be used to reflect upon and consolidate one’s individual and collective issues and experiences pertaining to identity and emancipation.
In her engrossing and perhaps controversial narrative, I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, Menchu presents the unsuspecting readers with an insight into the unique perspective and importance that the Catholic Church and Christianity hold for the native Indians.
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