Mixtec evangelicals : : globalization, migration, and religious change in a Oaxacan Indigenous group / / Mary I. O'Connor.

• VerfasserIn: O'Connor, Mary I.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder, Colorado : : University Press of Colorado,, 2016; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 161 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Mixtec Evangelicals is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in search of wage labor and return having converted from their rural Catholic roots to Evangelical Protestant religions. O’Connor demonstrates the ways that neoliberal policies have forced Mixtecs to migrate and how migration provides the contexts for conversion. Converts challenge the set of customs governing their Mixtec villages by refusing to participate in the Catholic ceremonies and social gatherings that are at the center of traditional village life. Home communities have responded in a number of ways—ranging from expulsion of converts to partial acceptance and adjustments within the village.

Table of Contents

chapter 1. Ñuu Shaavi, the land of rain --chapter 2. Mixtecs and modernity --chapter 3. San Juan Mixtepec: Ñuu Vicu, the land of clouds --chapter 4. San Juan Diquiyú --chapter 5. Colonia Sinaí: los expulsados --chapter 6. Four communities compared --chapter 7. Mixtec diaspora? --chapter 8. Concluding remarks.