Divided by Faith and Ethnicity: Religious Pluralism and the by Andrea Althoff

By Andrea Althoff

In a distinct process, this publication analyzes the unfold of Pentecostal Christianity and the expansion of indigenous revitalization activities. It explores the jobs ethnicity and ethnic identities play in modern strategies of spiritual pluralism. it's relatively proper to these drawn to the expansion of the Protestant Pentecostal and neo-Pentecostal pursuits, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, and the indigenous Maya circulation in Guatemala.

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Divided by Faith and Ethnicity: Religious Pluralism and the Problem of Race in Guatemala

In a different strategy, this publication analyzes the unfold of Pentecostal Christianity and the expansion of indigenous revitalization pursuits. It explores the jobs ethnicity and ethnic identities play in modern procedures of spiritual pluralism. it really is really appropriate to these attracted to the expansion of the Protestant Pentecostal and neo-Pentecostal pursuits, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, and the indigenous Maya circulation in Guatemala.

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The Maya movement, to the contrary, challenges the Christian churches and their universal discourse, whether Catholic or Protestant, by means of particularistic ethnic group identities, in order to establish its own idea of a new Guatemalan nation. The dynamic of the growth of Protestant Pentecostalism, neo-Pentecostalism, the emergence of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, and the Maya movement are understood in this book as part of a process of religious pluralism that is articulated in the form of an increasing differentiation of the religious sphere.

Secondly, and related to the first aspect, we are able to observe new types of global cultures, facilitated by the flow of people, images, and practices. Identity concepts such as pan-Mayanism or the neo-Pentecostal idea of a global community of the saved are visible expressions of these globalized identities. Undoubtedly, these developments are paralleled by and connected to other complex phenomena, such as an erosion of the formerly territorialized nationstate,⁸³ an increase in communication by means of new technologies, the establishment of a globalized economy triggered by the extension of financial markets and business relationships, and so on.

Vásquez and Marie Friedmann Marquardt, Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003).  Andrew Canessa, referring to theories of postmodernity in the following quotation, shows that their argument is similar to that of globalization theories: “This line of reasoning presents Indian nationalism as an example of the fracturing of the nation-state as global economies erode the clarity of national boundaries and undermine the cohesion of nation identity, while simultaneously increasing inequalities.

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