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All Religions Are Good in Tzintzuntzan: Evangelicals in Catholic Mexico

Autor Peter S. Cahn
en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2003
Since the 1960s, evangelical Christian denominations have made converts throughout much of Roman Catholic Latin America, causing clashes of faith that sometimes escalate to violence. Yet in one Mexican town, Tzintzuntzan, the appearance of new churches has provoked only harmony. Catholics and evangelicals alike profess that "all religions are good," a sentiment not far removed from "here we are all equal," which was commonly spoken in the community before evangelicals arrived.
In this paradigm-challenging study, Peter Cahn investigates why the coming of evangelical churches to Tzintzuntzan has produced neither the interfaith clashes nor the economic prosperity that evangelical conversion has brought to other communities in Mexico and Latin America. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, he demonstrates that the evangelicals' energetic brand of faith has not erupted into violence because converts continue to participate in communal life, while Catholics, in turn, participate in evangelical practices. He also underscores how Tzintzuntzan's integration into global economic networks strongly motivates the preservation of community identity and encourages this mutual borrowing. At the same time, however, Cahn concludes that the suppression of religious difference undermines the revolutionary potential of religion.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292701755
ISBN-10: 0292701756
Pagini: 213
Ilustrații: 13 photographs, 1 map
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press

Notă biografică

Peter S. Cahn is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma.

Cuprins

  • Preface. Confronting Interreligious Violence
  • 1. Sharing the Burden of Fiestas across Borders
  • 2. Drinking and the Divine in Chiapas and Tzintzuntzan
  • 3. Accounting for Missionaries and Money
  • 4. Responding to the Minority: Catholic Self-Improvement
  • 5. Responding to the Majority: Doctrinal Disobedience
  • 6. Considering the Consequences of Conversion
  • Conclusion: Mobilizing Religion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Recenzii

In summary, the book is an important contribution to the field of religious conversion and the study of Protestantism in Mexico and Latin America, in both as an ethnographic work and as a solid reflection on issues related to social, political, and economic consequences of religious diversity.

[A] pleasure to read, as it shows that good ethnography should not be boring. This text will certainly find the wide audience it deserves among readers from many backgrounds.

Descriere

In this paradigm-challenging study, Peter Cahn investigates why the coming of evangelical churches to Tzintzuntzan has produced neither the interfaith clashes nor the economic prosperity that evangelical conversion has brought to other communities in Mexi