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Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala - Cultural Collapse and Christian Pentecostal Revitalization (Hardcover)
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Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala - Cultural Collapse and Christian Pentecostal Revitalization (Hardcover)
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Mayas, and indeed all Guatemalans, are currently experiencing the
collapse of their way of life. This collapse is disrupting
ideologies, symbols, life practices, and social structures that
have undergirded their society for almost five hundred years, and
it is causing rapid and massive religious transformation among the
K'iche' Maya living in highland western Guatemala. Many Maya are
converting to Christian Pentecostal faiths in which adherents and
leaders become bodily agitated during worship. Drawing on over
fifty years of research and data collected by field-school
students, Hawkins argues that two factors-cultural collapse and
systematic social and economic exclusion--explain the recent
religious transformation of Maya Guatemala and the style and
emotional intensity through which that transformation is expressed.
Guatemala serves as a window on religious change around the world,
and Hawkins examines the rapid pentecostalization of Christianity
not only within Guatemala but also throughout the global South. The
""pentecostal wail,"" as he describes it, is ultimately an
acknowledgment of the angst and insecurity of contemporary Maya.
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