Mixtec Evangelicals : Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group /
"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 h...
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Boulder, Colorado :
University Press of Colorado,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Ñuu Shaavi, The Land of Rain
- Chapter 2. Mixtecs and Modernity
- Chapter 3. San Juan Mixtepec
- Chapter 4. San Juan Diquiyú
- Chapter 5. Colonia Sinaí
- Chapter 6. Four Communities Compared
- Chapter 7. Mixtec Diaspora?
- Chapter 8. Concluding Remarks.
- Ñuu Shaavi, The Land of Rain. Brief history of the Mixteca region
- Spanish conquest and afterward
- Political organization in the Mixteca area
- Politics in Mixtec villages : Usos y Costumbres
- Politics and religion
- Migration and religious change
- Churches
- Conversion process
- Hermana Adela : migrant and convert
- Non-Catholic churches in the Mixteca region
- Response of the Catholic Church to religious change
- Mixtecs and Modernity. Modernity, indigeneity, and religious conversion
- Modernity and religion
- "The great transformation"
- Globalization and neoliberalism
- Mixtecs in the New World Order
- Globalization, migration, and modernity
- Cultural remittances
- Mixtec communities in the context of globalization
- Globalization and religious conversion
- Indigenous modernities
- San Juan Mixtepec : Ñuu Vicu, the Land of Clouds. Municipio
- Setting
- Two Agencias : San Lucas and San Pedro Yososcuá
- Relations between Catholics and non-Catholics
- Non-Catholic churches in Yososcuá
- Relations between Catholics and non-Catholics in Yososcuá
- Migration and religious change
- Social and economic indicators
- Modernity and Usos y Costumbres
- San Juan Diquiyú : Village on a Rock. Why San Juan Diquiyú?
- Setting
- Village of San Juan Diquiyú
- Fiesta system
- Orthodox and folk Catholicism
- Non-Catholics in San Juan Diquiyú
- Seventh-Day Adventists
- Trinitarians in San Juan Diquiyú
- Conflict, peace, and ridicule
- Colonia Sinaí : Los Expulsados. Village
- Expulsion
- After the expulsion
- Return to the village
- Four communities compared
- Variations on a Theme
- Settings
- Language and religion
- Socioeconomic characteristics of the communities
- Migration and community development
- Catholics and non-Catholics
- Usos y Costumbres in three communities
- Migration, religious change, and modernity
- Mixtec Diaspora?. Mixtec migrants in Mexico
- Conversion in Culiacán
- Miguel Alemán, Sonora
- Non-Catholics in Miguel Alemán
- Baja California
- San Quintín
- Tijuana
- Mixtecs in the United States
- California
- Oregon and Washington
- Generations, present and future
- Ethnic organizations
- The IJA : an alternative to ethnic organizations?
- Mixtec Diaspora?
- Mixtecs in the modern world-system
- Transnational communities and religious conversion
- Mixtec villages as transnational communities
- Transnational studies, globalization, and religious conversion
- Selective modernity
- Toward a general explanation of religious conversion.