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Title: Catholic Church In Quiché
Date: 1984-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A stone Catholic church stands in the rural highlands of Quiché department, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. Guatemala was introduced to the Catholic religion during the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 16th century.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Spanish colonization of the Americas
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0014_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96737
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Title: Catholic Shrine in Antigua, Guatemala
Date: 1982-05-10
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: View of carved religious figures near the front altar of a Roman Catholic church in Antigua, Guatemala, May 10, 1982. Guatemala was introduced to Catholicism during the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 16th century and the Roman Catholic Church continues to dominate the country's religious society. However by the mid-1980s, Protestantism and particularly the evangelical movement was gaining popularity and it is estimated that Protestants accounted for approximately one third of Guatemala's total population at that time.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Spanish colonization of the Americas
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0067_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96916
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Title: Catholic Shrine in Antigua, Guatemala
Date: 1982-05-10
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: View of a carved religious figure near the front altar of a Roman Catholic church in Antigua, Guatemala, May 10, 1982. Guatemala was introduced to Catholicism during the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 16th century and the Roman Catholic Church has continued to dominate the country's religious society. However by the mid-1980s, Protestantism and particularly the evangelical movement was gaining popularity and it is estimated that Protestants accounted for approximately one third of Guatemala's total population at that time.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Spanish colonization of the Americas
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0068_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96917
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Evangelicals In Quiché
Date: 1982-02-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A group of ethnic Maya and evangelical Protestants pray during an outdoor religious service near Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, February 1, 1982. Guatemala was introduced to Catholicism during the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 16th century, and the Roman Catholic Church has continued to dominate the country's religious society. However by the mid-1980s, Protestantism and particularly the evangelical movement was gaining popularity and it is estimated that Protestants accounted for approximately one third of Guatemala's total population at that time.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Religion; Protestantism; Evangelical movement; Spanish colonization of the Americas
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0067_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96792
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Evangelicals In Quiché
Date: 1982-02-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A group of ethnic Maya and evangelical Protestants pray during an outdoor religious service near Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, February 1, 1982. Guatemala was introduced to Catholicism during the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 16th century, and the Roman Catholic Church has continued to dominate the country's religious society. However by the mid-1980s, Protestantism and particularly the evangelical movement was gaining popularity and it is estimated that Protestants accounted for approximately one third of Guatemala's total population at that time.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Religion; Protestantism; Evangelical movement; Spanish colonization of the Americas
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0031_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96880
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Evangelicals In Quiché
Date: 1982-02-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A group of ethnic Maya and evangelical Protestants pray during an outdoor religious service near Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, February 1, 1982. Guatemala was introduced to Catholicism during the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 16th century, and the Roman Catholic Church has continued to dominate the country's religious society. However by the mid-1980s, Protestantism and particularly the evangelical movement was gaining popularity and it is estimated that Protestants accounted for approximately one third of Guatemala's total population at that time.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Religion; Protestantism; Evangelical movement; Spanish colonization of the Americas
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0040_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96889
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Fiesta De Santo Tomás In Chichicastenango
Date: 1981-12-20
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Local K'iche Maya residents reenact the Spanish conquest of the Americas at an event during the Fiesta de Santo Tomás, Chichicastenango, Guatemala, December 20, 1981. The seven day festival is a syncretism of Catholic traditions, honoring the city's patron saint Thomas, and native Maya traditions.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Spanish colonization of the Americas; Maya peoples; Indigenous peoples; Syncretism; Tradition; Ritual
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0018_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96741
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Fiesta de Santo Tomás In Chichicastenango
Date: 1981-12-20
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Local K'iche Maya residents reenact the Spanish conquest of the Americas at an event during the Fiesta de Santo Tomás, Chichicastenango, Guatemala, December 20, 1981. The seven day festival is a syncretism of Catholic traditions, honoring the city's patron saint Thomas, and native Maya traditions.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Spanish colonization of the Americas; Maya peoples; Indigenous peoples; Syncretism; Tradition; Ritual
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0008_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96857
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Fiesta de Santo Tomás In Chichicastenango
Date: 1981-12-20
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Local K'iche Maya residents reenact the Spanish conquest of the Americas at an event during the Fiesta de Santo Tomás, Chichicastenango, Guatemala, December 20, 1981. The seven day festival is a syncretism of Catholic traditions, honoring the city's patron saint Thomas, and native Maya traditions.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Spanish colonization of the Americas; Maya peoples; Indigenous peoples; Syncretism; Tradition; Ritual
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0009_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96858
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Fiesta de Santo Tomás In Chichicastenango
Date: 1981-12-20
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Local K'iche Maya residents reenact the Spanish conquest of the Americas at an event during the Fiesta de Santo Tomás, Chichicastenango, Guatemala, December 20, 1981. The seven day festival is a syncretism of Catholic traditions, honoring the city's patron saint Thomas, and native Maya traditions.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Spanish colonization of the Americas; Maya peoples; Indigenous peoples; Syncretism; Tradition; Ritual
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0010_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96859
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Fiesta de Santo Tomás In Chichicastenango
Date: 1981-12-20
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Local K'iche Maya residents reenact the Spanish conquest of the Americas at an event during the Fiesta de Santo Tomás, Chichicastenango, Guatemala, December 20, 1981. The seven day festival is a syncretism of Catholic traditions, honoring the city's patron saint Thomas, and native Maya traditions.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Spanish colonization of the Americas; Maya peoples; Indigenous peoples; Syncretism; Tradition; Ritual
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0027_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96750
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Fiesta de Santo Tomás In Chichicastenango
Date: 1981-12-20
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Local K'iche Maya residents reenact the Spanish conquest of the Americas at an event during the Fiesta de Santo Tomás, Chichicastenango, Guatemala, December 20, 1981. The seven day festival is a syncretism of Catholic traditions, honoring the city's patron saint Thomas, and native Maya traditions.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Spanish colonization of the Americas; Maya peoples; Indigenous peoples; Syncretism; Tradition; Ritual
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0028_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96751
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Fiesta de Santo Tomás In Chichicastenango
Date: 1981-12-20
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Local K'iche Maya residents reenact the Spanish conquest of the Americas at an event during the Fiesta de Santo Tomás, Chichicastenango, Guatemala, December 20, 1981. The seven day festival is a syncretism of Catholic traditions, honoring the city's patron saint Thomas, and native Maya traditions.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Spanish colonization of the Americas; Maya peoples; Indigenous peoples; Syncretism; Tradition; Ritual
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0029_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96752
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Religious Festival In Chichicastenango, Guatemala
Date: 1982-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Indigenous Maya men and women kneel in prayer during a traditional Roman Catholic ceremony in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, May 1, 1982. Catholicism was introduced to Guatemala during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. In the following centuries, forced conversion and other methods to indoctrinate indigenous communities throughout the country into the Roman Catholic Church produced a syncretism of Catholicism and native Maya traditions.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Spanish colonization of the Americas; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Syncretism
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0062_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96911
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Religious Festival In Chichicastenango, Guatemala
Date: 1982-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: An indigenous Maya man dressed as Spanish conquistador with a horse's head participates in a religious procession in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, May 1, 1982. Catholicism was introduced to Guatemala during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. In the following centuries, forced conversion and other methods to indoctrinate indigenous communities throughout the country into the Roman Catholic Church produced a syncretism of Catholicism and native Maya traditions.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Spanish colonization of the Americas; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Syncretism
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0063_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96912
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Religious Festival In Chichicastenango, Guatemala
Date: 1982-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A group of indigenous Maya men and women stand in front of a Roman Catholic church as they await the start of a religious procession in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, May 1, 1982. Catholicism was introduced to Guatemala during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. In the following centuries, forced conversion and other methods to indoctrinate indigenous communities throughout the country into the Roman Catholic Church produced a syncretism of Catholicism and native Maya traditions.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Spanish colonization of the Americas; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Syncretism
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0064_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96913
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Religious Festival In Chichicastenango, Guatemala
Date: 1982-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: An indigenous Maya man dressed as Spanish conquistador with a horse's head participates in a religious procession in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, May 1, 1982. Catholicism was introduced to Guatemala during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. In the following centuries, forced conversion and other methods to indoctrinate indigenous communities throughout the country into the Roman Catholic Church produced a syncretism of Catholicism and native Maya traditions.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Spanish colonization of the Americas; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Syncretism
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0066_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96915
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Religious Festival In Chichicastenango, Guatemala
Date: 1982-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: An indigenous Maya woman kneels in prayer during a traditional Roman Catholic mass in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, May 1, 1982. Catholicism was introduced to Guatemala during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. In the following centuries, forced conversion and other methods to indoctrinate indigenous communities throughout the country into the Roman Catholic Church produced a syncretism of Catholicism and native Maya traditions.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Spanish colonization of the Americas; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Syncretism
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0065_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96914
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Ríos Montt Meets With Members Of The Church And Civilians
Date: 1983-06-15
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Guatemalan President Efraín Ríos Montt (1926-2018), center left with hand raised, speaks to a Roman Catholic Cardinal accompanied by civilians and church officials in Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 18, 1983. Guatemala was introduced to Catholicism during the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 16th century, and the Roman Catholic Church has dominated the country's religious society. However by the mid-1980s during the Christian evangelical Ríos Montt's term as head of state, Protestantism and the evangelical movement was gaining popularity.
Subject: Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Protestantism; Evangelical movement; Spanish colonization of the Americas; Efraín Ríos Montt
Country: Guatemala
Subject -- Personal Name: Efraín Ríos Montt
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0102_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96951
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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