New age in Latin America : : popular variations and ethnic appropriations / / edited by Renee de la Torre, Cristina Gutierrez Zuniga, Nahayeilli Juarez Huet ; translated from the Spanish original by Nicholas Barrett.

• Superior document: Religion in the Americas, Volume 16
• TeilnehmendeR: Torre, Renée de la,; Gutiérrez Zúñiga, Cristina,; Juárez Huet, Nahayeilli,; Barrett, Nicholas,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Religion in the Americas series ; Volume 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (444 pages) :; illustrations, tables.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Other title: Variaciones y apropiaciones latinoamericanas del new age. English.; Preliminary Material /; Introduction to Part 1 /; Indo- and Afro-American Religiosities, and Circuits of New Age Spirituality /; Logics and Limits of New Age Appropriations: Where Syncretism Comes to an End /; Introduction to Part 2 /; The New Age Movement and Urban Shamanism in Brazil /; Endo- and Exo-shamanism in Mexico: Doctrines Disputing over ‘Ethnic Spirituality’ /; The Thirteen Grandmothers of the World: An Example of Cosmopolitan Shamanism /; Strategies for Resistance and the Negotiation of Cultural Goods in Wixaritari Shamanism: Processes of Articulation /; Introduction to Part 3 /; Catholicism and the New Age: A Cure through Liberation and Finding Oneself, in a Charismatic Catholic Ritual /; Santeria and New Age: Interactions, Limits and Complementarities /; The Journey of San Simón from Guatemala to the United States: Processes of Reappropriation of a Popular Saint of Guatemala /; Post-colonial Narratives: The Resignifying of the Aztec Conchero Dance as a New Age Therapeutic Practice in Mexico and Spain /; Unconventional Religiosities and the New Age in Vale do Amanhecer (the Valley of the Dawn), Brasilia /; Introduction to Part 4 /; The Process of Resignifying the Traditional Religions, and New Spiritual Currents in Brazilian Society /; The Invention of Andean New Age: The Globalization of Tradition /; The Reinterpretation of Oxlajuj b’aqtun in Guatemala: Between the New Age and Mayan Reconstitution /; The Conchero Dance and the Conquest of Cyberspace /; Final Notes /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004316485
• ISSN: 1542-1279
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Renee de la Torre, Cristina Gutierrez Zuniga, Nahayeilli Juarez Huet ; translated from the Spanish original by Nicholas Barrett.

This book is at the crossroads where a New Age sensibility, advancing like an ecumen of worldwide spirituality without national, cultural, or ecclesiastical frontiers, meets Latin America's syncretic religions, practiced by groups of people wiht African or indigenous roots or developed from the tradition of popular Catholicism. The Syncretic character of the two sensibilities makes both the New Age and popular religion behave like two, syncretizing and syncreticizable matrices of meaning. This book opens up a rich vein of debate with new dilemmas and discussions, that will provide a framework for a new field of study in anthropology. What new ways of signifying living and experiencing religion is the New Age generating in Latin America? What are its limits?