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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.
Pages | 408 |
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Dimensions | 279 x 216 |
Date Published | 30 May 2021 |
Publisher | University of New Mexico Press |
Subject/s | History of the Americas   History of religion   Social & cultural anthropology   |