October Revolution 1, see also GuatemalanSpring
Olmec (Xhi) civilization 1
O’Neill, Kevin 1, 2n3, 4, 5, 6
Opus Dei 1, 2, 3, 4n5, 6, 7, 8
oración de liberación 1
Organización Revolucionaria del Pueblo en Armas (ORPA) 1n2, n3, 4n5, 6 – 7, 8, 9 – 10
Oxlajuj Ajpop 1
Padre Tomás García see García, padre Tomás
Palabra Miel Santiago Atitlán 1
pan-American identity 1, 2, 3 – 4, 5
pan-Maya movement 1n2, 3, 4n5, 6, 7, 8
parishes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 – 6, 7 – 8, 9 – 10, 11, 12
participant observation 1-2, 3, 4n5, 6n7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Partido Democracia Cristiana Guatemalteca (PDCG) 1
Partido Guatemalteco de Trabajo (PGT) 1n2, 3n4, 5n6, 7
Partido Indígena de Guatemala 1
Pastoral de las Culturas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Pastoral Indígena 1, 2, 3, 4–5, 6n7, 8 – 9, 10 – 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
Pastoral Indígenista see pastoral indígena
pastoral policies, Catholic 1, 2–3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Pastoral Social 1–2, 3n4, 5–6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
pastors 1, 2–3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 – 12, 13 – 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 – 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
patrons’ feasts see saints’ days
Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC) see Civil Defence Patrols
Peace Accords 1, 2, 3n4, 5n6, 7n8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
peace negotiations 1n2, 3n4, 5, 6, 7, 8, see also Esquipulas 9 and Peace Accords
peasant leagues see Ligas Campesinas
Pekes, Horacio 1
Pentecostal Christianity V, 1, 2, 3, and ethnicity, 4 – 5, 6, 7, and theories, 8–9
Pentecostalism see Catholic Pentecostalism, Mayan Pentecostalism, and Pentecostal Christianity
Pokomam 1
Political violence 1, 2, 3 – 4, 5, 6 – 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
popular Catholicism see Catholicism
popular front VI, 1 – 2, 3, 4, 5, see movimiento popular
popular religion 1, 2, 3, 4 – 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Popul Vuh, Popul Vuh, Pop Wuuj 1, 2, 3n4, 5 – 6, 7, 8, 9 – 10, 11, 12 – 13, 14
Porras, Gustavo 1, 2, 3n4, 5, 6n7, 8
postmillennialism V, 1
postwar Guatemala 1
poverty 1, 2, 3, 4n5, 6, 7n8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
practices, religious see traditional religious practices
prayer groups see grupos de oración
prayers see oración de liberación
Presbyterian church in Guatemala see denominations
priests see Catholic Church
Prince of Peace Church see Iglesia del Príncipe de Paz
privatization of religion 1n651
Programa Misionero Kaqchiquel Chimaltenango (PROMIKA) 1n2, 3
progressive Catholicism see Liberation Theology
prophesy and prophesying 1, 2, 3, 4
prosperity gospel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Protestantism see denominations
Protestant Pentecostalism see Pentecostal Christianity, neo-Pentecostalism, Mayan Pentecostalism
Puebla Conference 1
Rabinal Achí 1
race 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 – 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 – 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 – 21, 22, 23, biblical references 24, definition, 25 – 26, 27 – 28
radio stations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Rafael Landívar University 1, 2
Rains of Mercy Church see Iglesia Lluvias de Gracia
Ramazzini Imeri, Bishop Álvaro Leonel 1, 2n3, 4, 5, 6n7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
rational-choice theories see theories
reconciliation 1, 2n3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica (REMHI) 1, 2n3, 4n5, 6, 7, 8, 9, see also Catholic Truth Commission
re-evangelization campaigns 1 – 2, 3n4, 5, 6, 7
refugees 1, 2n3, 4, 5n6, 7n8, 9, 10
Reglamiento de Jornaleros see Ley de Vagancia
relationships social, 1
religion and religious pluralism, definitions 1 – 2, see also domains, religious for a sociological definition on religion
religious affiliation 1n2, 3, 4n5, 6, 7, 8 – 9, 10 – 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 – 20, 21 – 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
religious brotherhoods and religious cargo system see cofradías
religious dialogue 1, 2n3, 4, 5
religious domain(s) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
religious pluralism see pluralism
Renewalist Christians 1, 2, see Christians,and Pentecostal Christianity
revitalization, of Mayan culture 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 – 9, 10 – 11, 12 – 13, 14, 15, ethnic, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 – 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, indigenous, 34, 35n36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, in the Catholic Church, 44, 45 – 46, 47, revitalization movements, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53
Revolutionary Committee Vicente Menchú 1n2, 3
Revolutionary Party (PR) 1
Ríos de Agua Viva Church 1
Ríos Montt, ex-general José Efraín 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and conversion 7n8, and election in 1974, 9, and neo-Pentecostalism 10 – 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and violence 18, 19, 20, coup d’etat in 1982, 21, 22, 23n869
Ríos Montt, Mario 1
rituals, Mayan 1, 2, 3n4, 5n6, 7, 8, 9n10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 – 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, catholic 28, Protestantneo-Pentecostal, 29, religious, 30, 31, 32, ritual Catholic calendar 33
Roberts, Granville ‘Oral’ 1
Rodríguez Guaján, Demetrio 1, 2
Rojas Lima, Flavio 1, 2n3, 4n5, 6n7, 8n9, 10 – 11, 12
Roman Catholic Church 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, see also Catholic Church
Rossell y Arellano, Archbishop Mariano 1– 2, 3
Rossi, Padre Marcelo 1
Sabatistas (Adventists) 1
Sac Coyoy, Audelino 1n2, 3, 4 – 5, 6, 7
sacerdotes Mayas, 1 see also Mayan priests
Sacred Heart, Society of 1
saints 1n2, 3–4, 5–6, 7–8, 9, 10, 11, 12 – 13, 14 – 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
saints’ days 1–2, 3–4, 5, 6, 7 – 8
saint-society 1n2, 3, see also cofradías
San Antonio Aguas Calientes 1
San Antonio Ilotenango 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
San Cristóbal Ixchiguán 1
San Juan Sacatepéquez, cement plant in 1
Sandinista National Liberal Front 1
San Marcos, province of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
San Miguel Ixtahuacán 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
San Pedro Jocopilas 1
San Pedro Sacapulas 1
San Simón 1, 2, 3, see also Maximón
Santiago Atitlán 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Santiago, Edwin 1
Schütze, Fritz 1
scorched-earth campaigns 1, 2, 3, 4, see also counterinsurgency
Second Continental Encounter of 500 Years of Indigenous and Popular Resistance 1
Second Vatican Council 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, see also Vatican 12
Secretariado Católico Nacional (SNC) 1
sects 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
secularization 1–2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
self-respect 1
Seminario de Integración Social 1
semi-proletarianized peasantry 1, 2
separation of Church and state 1, 2
sermons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Serrano Elías, Jorge 1, 2, 3, 4 – 5, 6
service, Catholic Charismatic see also worship
Shakarian, Demos 1n828
shaman priests 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, see also Mayan priests or Aj Q’ij
sickness and religion 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
sin 1, 2, 3 – 4, 5, 6 – 7, 8 – 9, 10, 11 – 12, in former generations,13
singing in Christian meetings 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
social change 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, see also anomie
social interaction 1
social mobility see mobility
social movements 1n2, 3n4, 5, 6n7, 8n9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
social networks 1
social protest 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
social reality 1, 2, 3n4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
sociology XV, and conversion 1, and secularization 2, interpretative sociology 3n4, sociology of religion 5, 6n7, 8
solidarity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Sololá 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Sotz’il Jay Cultural Center 1
South-East Guatemala 1
Spanish conquest see conquest
speaking in tongues, in the CCR 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, in Pentecostal Christianity,6, 7, 8, in Protestant Pentecostalism,9, 10, 11, 12 – 13, 14, 15 – 16, 17, 18
spiritual guides, Mayan 1, 2, 3, 4
spirits 1, 2n3, 4n5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
spiritual economies 1
spiritual gifts 1
spirituality see Mayan spirituality
spiritual practices 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
spiritual warfare 1, 2, 3, 4, 5– 6, 7 – 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
status, social 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
strategy of the masses 1 – 2, 3, 4
strategic essentialism, see essentialism
storefronts, services in 1
Sullivan, Anne 1
Summer Institute of Linguistics 1n2, 3
Summit of Latin American Indians March 2007 1
supermarket as religious metaphor 1, 2– 3
Swaggart, Jimmy Lee 1
symbols XVI, 1, 2, and Catholicism 3n4, 5, 6, and Mayan identity, 7, and neo-Pentecostalism, 8
syncretism VII, 1, 2, 3, and Catholic Church, 4, and hybridity 5, 6 – 7, and Mayan spirituality, 8, 9, 10, and Protestant Pentecostalism 11, 12, 13, 14, and religious pluralism 15
Sywulka, Edward 1
Tabasco, Mayans in 1
Tajumulco 1, 2n3, 4, 5n6, 7, 8n9, 10, 11, 511, 12, 13, 14, 15
Tamales 1
temascal 1
Tezahuic Tohón, Fernando 1
theology 1, and Pentecostalism, 2, 3, 4, Christian 5, dispensationalist6, dominion 7, 8, indigenous 9, 10, 11, 12n13, 14, interpretative 15, Mayan 16, 17, 18, ‘name it and claim it theology’, neo-Pentecostal 19, 20, Protestant 21
theories V, 1, 2, 3, and Pentecostalism 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Marxist, 13, microeconomic 14, of assimilation 15, of constructivism 16, 17, of creolization 18, of hybridization 19, 20, 21n22, of globalization 23, 24n25, of modernization 26, 27, of postmodernity 28, of race and ethnic relations 29, rational-choice 30, 31, of secularization 32, of urbanization33,
Tiney, Juan 1
Título de los Señores de Totonicapán 1
traditional religious practices 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
transnational communication programs 1, economic crisis 2, 3, international
movements 1, migration 2, mission 3, networks, 4, 5, organizations 6,
Pentecostal Christianity, 1, 2, 3, 4, religion 5, religious networks 6, spirituality 7
truth commissions 1, see also CEH and REMH2
Turkey 1
Tutu, Anglican Archbishop Desmond 1
Tuyuc, Rosalina 1
TV and neo-Pentecostalism 1, and PentecostalChristianity 2, 3, 4, and Ríos Montt 5, 6
Tzutujil 1
Úbico y Castañeda, Jorge (Guatemalan president) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
U’k’u’x Mayab’ Tinamit, Corazón del Pueblo 1
Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional de Guatemala (URNG) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Union Sindical de Trabajadores de Guatemala (UNSITRAGUA) 1
United States 1, 2-3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 – 10, 11 – 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 – 28, 29 – 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 – 39
universalism Christian 1, religious 2, Roman-Catholic 3
Universidad Panamericana 1
Urbanization 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, urbanization theories, 7, 8, 9, 10
Vatican 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
veneration of ancestors 1, 2, 3, of Maximón 4, of saints, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, of the Holy Spirit, 12, of the Virgin of Guadalupe, 13
Verona Cúmez, Pedro 1
violence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, against Mayan priests, 21, and indigenous population 22, and insurgency 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, and Catholicism, 30, 31, and mining, 32, and neo-Pentecostalism,33 – 34, and Pentecostal Christianity,35, colonial 36, criminal 37, 38, ethnic-cultural dimension, 39, domestic 40, military 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, political, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, Ríos Montt, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, state, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72
Virgin Mary 1, 2, 3, 4, Virgin Birth 5, 6, 7, Virgin of
Vision with Values (VIVA) 1
wakes 1
Weber, Max 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Wesley, John 1
Whitbeck, Harris Pinol 1
white identity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, ‘whitening’;13
Williamson, Richard 1
witchcraft 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Witt, Marcos 1
women 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and CCR 14, 15, 16, 17, and neo-Pentecostalism 18, 19, 20, 21, and Pentecostal Christianity, 22, 23, and Protestantism24, indigenous, 25, 26, 27, 28, ordained Catholic, 29,
worship 1, 2, 3, 4, ancestor, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and ethnic divide, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and exorcism, 18, and Pentecostal Christianity, 19, attendance20, Catholic, 21, 22, 23, CCR, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, in indigenouslanguages 37, in the CAM, 38, Mayan neo-Pentecostal 39, 40, neo-Pentecostal, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, of Maximón or San Simón, 50
workshops, and the CCR 1, 2, and neo-Pentecostalism,3, 4, and Pop Vuh, 5, and Protestantism, 6, on Mayan spirituality, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 – 14, 15, 16, 17
worldview 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Mayan worldview 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, see also cosmovisión Maya