Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds: Religion and Modernity in a Transnational K'iche' Community
Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Community and Modernity -- Querying Community -- Conceptualizing Indigenous Communities in Mesoamerica -- Modernity, Religion, and the Nonmodern -- Methods and Conventions -- Chapter Summary -- 1 H...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Chicago
University Press of Colorado
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Series/Journal: | IMS Culture and Society
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Guatemala
/ Quiché (People)
/ Ethnic identity
/ Religious pluralism
B USA / Guatemalan immigrant / Quiché (People) / Religion / Modernity |
| IxTheo Classification: | BB Indigenous religions CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KBR Latin America |
| Further subjects: | B
San Andraes Xecul (Guatemala) - Emigration and immigration
B Electronic books |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (Verlag) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Community and Modernity -- Querying Community -- Conceptualizing Indigenous Communities in Mesoamerica -- Modernity, Religion, and the Nonmodern -- Methods and Conventions -- Chapter Summary -- 1 History, Economics, and Migration -- History of Xecul -- Economics and Migration -- Part One: Bodies -- 2 Costumbre -- Costumbre and Perspectivism in Mesoamerica -- Nawales, Bodies, and Difference in Xecul -- Narrating Hierarchy and Order -- Managing and Manipulating Suerte -- Discussion -- 3 Enthusiastic Christianity -- Enthusiastic Christianity in Mesoamerica -- The New Evangelization and Catholic Retrenchment -- Christian Messages and Conversions in Xecul -- Instilling Christian Enthusiasm: Inside a Guatemalan Cursillo -- Enthusiastic Christian Practice and Conflicts -- Courting the Holy Spirit in the Land of the Mundos -- Discussion -- Part Two: Minds -- 4 Inculturation -- Particularizing the Universal: Inculturation Theology -- Seeking the Maya Face of God: Padre Tomás García and Inculturation in Xecul -- The Weight of Evangelization: The Legacy of Inculturation in Xecul and Beyond -- Discussion -- 5 Maya Spirituality -- History and Institutionalization of Maya Spirituality -- Maya Religious Ideas and Practice beyond the Community -- Maya Spirituality in Xecul -- Discussion -- Part Three: Mobilities -- 6 Migration, Religion, and Ethnicity -- Religion Uprooted -- Perspectives on Migration from Xecul -- Religion and Community in San Diego County -- Costumbre and Pentecostalism in San Diego -- Ethnicity and Migrant Maya Religions -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Religion and Enchantment in Modern and Nonmodern Keys -- Commitment, Belonging, and Association in Xecul -- Xeculenses Confront the New Violence -- Epilogue -- References -- Index. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (354 pages) |
| ISBN: | 160732394X |