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Part V
by Andrea Althoff
Divided by Faith and Ethnicity
Religion and Society
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Doing Fieldwork on Religion and Ethnicity
Part I
Religious Pluralism and Ethnicity in Guatemala:An Introduction
The Religious Players
Part I: Catholicism
Part II: The Maya Movement
Part III: Enthusiastic Christianity: Protestant and Catholic Pentecostalism
Ethnicity and Pentecostal Christianity
The Guatemalan Social Structure: Ethnicity and EthnicIdentities in Guatemala
Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
Existing Theories
Globalization Theories
Religion as a Supermarket? Rational-Choice and Microeconomic Theories
Methodology and Methods of this Study
Book Structure and Overview
Part II
Catholicism, Religious Pluralism, and the EthnicDivide
Introduction to Catholicism and Ethnicity
Chapter Overview
The Catholic Bureaucracy: Structure and Features ofGuatemalan Catholicism
Indigenous Priests in the Catholic Church
Catholicism in Guatemala: Looking Back at the History ofReligious Pluralism and the Ethnic Divide (1524 – 1944)
The Conquest and Colonialism (1524 – 1824)
The Post-Independence Period: The Fall of Catholicism and the Rise ofProtestantism
Mayan Catholicism: The Cofradías
The Decline of the Cofradías
Revival of the Cofradías?
The Formation of an Indigenous Activism and the Role ofCatholic Networks and Ideologies: From the 1950s to the 1970s
Catholicism and the Political Environment of the 1950s and 1960s
Catholicism, Catholic Action and the Mayas
Cultural and Educational Initiatives
Political Initiatives
Agricultural Initiatives: Cooperatives, Ligas Campesinas, and the Comité deUnidad Campesina (CUC)
Catholicism, Indigenous Activism, and the Insurgency: 1978Onward
Ideological Factors and Mayan Exclusion
Catholic Networks and the Armed Confrontation
The Catholic Church in the mid-1980s and 1990s
The Popular Front, the Human Rights Agenda of the Catholic Church, and theEmergence of the Maya Movement
The Catholic Church and the Ethnic Agenda
Theory and Practice
The Popol Vuh: Myth and Revitalization of the Indigenous Culture within theCatholic Church
Mayan Culture and Spirituality and the Training of Catechists Today
The Pastoral Indígena
The Pastoral Indígena in San Marcos
The Maya Movement and the Pastoral Indígena
Diversification of Catholicism: The Catholic CharismaticRenewal in Guatemala
The Historic Roots of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal
The Guatemalan Catholic Charismatic Renewal
The Contemporary Presence of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Guatemala
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal and Religious Pluralism
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal and Mayan Culture
Theological Profile and Religious Empowerment
Healing, Exorcism, and Popular Religion
The Guatemalan Church Hierarchy and the Catholic Charismatic Renewal
The Charismatic Renewal in Concepción Tutuapa
History and Religious Characteristics of the Municipality and the Parish
The Situation in the Parish Today
From Rejection to Acceptance: The Relationship between the Parish,Charismatic Catholics, Catechists, and the Diocese
Summary
Part III
The Guatemalan Maya Movement:Ethnicity and the Transformation of the ReligiousSphere
Introduction
Factors that Contributed to a New Ethnic-Religious Agenda:Rigoberta Menchú and the Peace Process
The Maya Movement and Its Religious Discourse
Syncretism, Hybrid Identities, and Resistance within the Indigenous MayanCulture
The New Mayan Priests
Mayan Spirituality in Comitancillo
The Decline of Traditional Mayan Spirituality in Comitancillo
The Social Effects of Essentialism: Conflicts over Meaning at the Local Level
The New Mayan Ceremonies
Summary
Part IV
Protestantism, Religious Pluralism, and the EthnicDivide: An Introduction
Explaining Religious Pluralism and Protestant Growth inGuatemala: An Overview
The Distribution of Protestantism in the Indigenous andnon-Indigenous Population
Overlapping Terms and Doctrines: Pentecostalism,Neo-Pentecostalism, Charismatic Movement, Evangelicalism,and Fundamentalism
Pentecostalism in Guatemala
Doctrine and Historical Origins of Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism and the Rejection of Mayan Spirituality and Culture
Racial Exclusion and Pentecostalism
Organizational Structures: Kin and Family
Pentecostalism and Ethnic Homogeneity
The Case of Fermín Cuyuch: Conversion and Ethnic Mobility
Conversion of Mayans to Pentecostalism: A Religious and EthnicEmpowerment?
Symbolic and Real Power: Conversion and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Neo-Pentecostalism in Guatemala
Doctrinal and Historical Roots of Neo-Pentecostalism
Iglesias de Fufurufus? – Churches of the Rich? Class and Ethnicity inneo-Pentecostal Congregations
Spiritual Army, Religious Enterprise, and Charismatic Apostles: OrganizationalFeatures of neo-Pentecostalism
The New Apostles and Ethnicity
Spiritual Warfare and the Negation of Mayan Culture in neo-PentecostalDoctrine
A Side Note on Neo-Pentecostalism and Political Activism
Civil War, Democratization, Reconciliation, and neo-Pentecostal Doctrine
The Development of Religious Pluralism in an IndigenousMunicipio: The Case of Comitancillo
Religious Pluralism and Ethnicity in Comitancillo
Religious Pluralism from an Individual Perspective: The Biography of CidiacoTemaj (Iglesia del Nazareno)
Summary
Pentecostalism and Ethnicity
Neo-Pentecostalism and Ethnicity
Part V
Conclusion Divided by Faith and Ethnicity: TheRelational Dynamic of Religious Pluralism and theEthnic Status Quo
Catholicism and Ethnicity in Guatemala
Colonialism, Catholicism, and the Maya
Guatemalan Twentieth-Century Catholicism and the Maya
The Catholic Hierarchy and the Ethnic Agenda at the End of the TwentiethCentury
Pastoral Indígena, Popul Vuh, and Training of the Laity
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal
Mayan Catechists and the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR)
Catholic Charismatic Renewal Doctrine and Mayan Culture
The Maya Movement
On the Reconfiguration of Ethnic and Religious Identities and the Social Effectsof Essentialism
Protestantism and Ethnicity in Guatemala
Mayan Pentecostalism and Ethnicity
Neo-Pentecostalism and Ethnicity
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Interviews
Holiness, Pentecostal and neo-Pentecostal Services
Mayan Ceremonies
Email Correspondence
Unpublished Documents, Pamphlets, Privately Published Materials, andMiscellaneous Materials
Newspapers and Other Media
Secondary Sources
Index
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