All Religions Are Good in Tzintzuntzan : Evangelicals in Catholic Mexico /
Cahn, Peter S.
All Religions Are Good in Tzintzuntzan : Evangelicals in Catholic Mexico / Peter S. Cahn. - 1 online resource (213 p.)
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE Confronting Interreligious Violence -- ONE. SHARING THE BURDEN OF FIESTAS ACROSS BORDERS -- TWO. DRINKING AND THE DIVINE IN CHIAPAS AND TZINTZUNTZAN -- THREE. ACCOUNTING FOR MISSIONARIES AND MONEY -- FOUR. RESPONDING TO THE MINORITY: CATHOLIC SELF-IMPROVEMENT -- FIVE. RESPONDING TO THE MAJORITY: DOCTRINAL DISOBEDIENCE -- SIX. CONSIDERING THE CONSEQUENCES OF CONVERSION -- CONCLUSION Mobilizing Religion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292798700
10.7560/705388 doi
Christian sociology--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan.
Church and social problems--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan.
Evangelicalism--Relations--Catholic Church.
Evangelicalism--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
BR1642.M6 / C34 2003eb
306.6/77237
All Religions Are Good in Tzintzuntzan : Evangelicals in Catholic Mexico / Peter S. Cahn. - 1 online resource (213 p.)
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE Confronting Interreligious Violence -- ONE. SHARING THE BURDEN OF FIESTAS ACROSS BORDERS -- TWO. DRINKING AND THE DIVINE IN CHIAPAS AND TZINTZUNTZAN -- THREE. ACCOUNTING FOR MISSIONARIES AND MONEY -- FOUR. RESPONDING TO THE MINORITY: CATHOLIC SELF-IMPROVEMENT -- FIVE. RESPONDING TO THE MAJORITY: DOCTRINAL DISOBEDIENCE -- SIX. CONSIDERING THE CONSEQUENCES OF CONVERSION -- CONCLUSION Mobilizing Religion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292798700
10.7560/705388 doi
Christian sociology--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan.
Church and social problems--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan.
Evangelicalism--Relations--Catholic Church.
Evangelicalism--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
BR1642.M6 / C34 2003eb
306.6/77237