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Protestant/Pentecostal

Protestant and Catholic church historians have published many volumes about individual countries or regions through the Commission for Studies of the History of the Church (CEHILA) under the title: Historia General de la Iglesia en América Latina

Recent Pentecostals and Politics

Paul Freston, Protestant Political Parties: A Global Survery (2003).

Paul Freston, Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa, and Latin America (2001).

Edward Cleary, "Pentecostals and Politics," paper available on web, see homepage at this website.

David Martin, Pentecostalism, The World is Their Parish(2001).

Edward Cleary and Hannah Stewart-Gambino, eds., Pentecostals, Power, and Politics in Latin America (1997), available on web, see homepage at this website.

Daniel Míguez, "Why Are Pentecostals Politically Ambiguous?," European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (December 1999)

Recent General 

André Corten and Ruth Marshall-Frarani, Between Babel and Pentecost: Transnational Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America (2001)

Paulo Barrera Rivera, Tradicâo, transmissâo e emocâo: Sociologia do protestantismo na America Latina (2001)

Edward L. Cleary and Hannah Stewart-Gambino, Power, Politics, and Pentecostals in Latin America (1997) (Available on web, see homepage)

Edward L. Cleary, "Latin American Pentecostalism," in Murray W. Dempster, et al., eds., The Globalization of Pentecostalism (1999)

Edward L. Cleary, "The Spirit Moves," Commonweal (Jan. 17, 1997)

Arturo Piedra, Signey Rooy, and H. Fernando Bullón, Hacia dónde va el protestantismo; Herencia y perspectiva en América Latina (2003)

Brian H. Smith, Religious Politics in Latin America: Pentecostal vs. Catholic (1998)

David Martin, Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish (2001)

Douglas Petersen, Not by Might nor by Power: A Pentecostal Theology of Social Concerns in
Latin America (1996)

Bernice Martin, “From Pre-Postmodernity in Latin America: The Case of Pentecostalism,” in Paul Heelas, ed., Religion, Modernity, and Postmodernity (1998)

José Míguez Bonino, The Faces of Latin American Protestantism (1995)

Daniel R. Miller, ed., Coming of Age: Protestantism in Contemporary Latin America (1994)

David A. Smilde, "Letting God Govern: Supernatural Agency in the Social Practice of Latin American Pentecostals," Sociology of Religion 59,3 (Fall 1998)

Virginia Garrard-Burnett and David Stoll, Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America (1993)

Daniel H. Levine, "Protestants and Catholics in Latin America: A Family Portrait," in Martin Marty and Scott Appleby, eds., Fundamentalisms Comprehended (1995)

Samuel Escobar, "The Promise and Precariousness of Latin American Protestantism," in Miller, The Coming of Age (1994)

Pedro C. Moreno, "Evangelical Churches" and John H. Sinclair, "Historical Protestantism," in Paul Sigmund, Religious Freedom and Evangelization in Latin America: Linking Pluralism and Democracy (1999)

David Martin, Tongues of Fire: The Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America (1990)

David Stoll, Is Latin America Turning Protestant? (1990)

Barbara Boudewijnse et al., More than Opium: An Anthropological Approach to Latin American and Caribbean Pentecostal Praxis (1998)

Christian Smith and Joshua Prokopy, eds., Latin American Religion in Motion (1999)

Pentecostalism as Spiritual Battle

Cecília Loreto Mariz, “A teologia da batalha espiritual: Uma revisâo da bibliografia,” Bib: Revista
Brasileira de Informaçâo Bibliográfica em Ciências Sociais 47, 1 (1999), pp, 33-48

Cecília Loreto Mariz, “O demônio e os pentecostais no Brasil,” in Roberto Cipriani, et al., eds.,
Identidade e mudança na religiosidade latin-americana (2000)
 

Women in Protestant Churches

Timothy J. Steigenga and David A. Smilde, "Wrapped in the Holy Shawl: The Strange Case of Conservative Christians and Gender Equality in Latin America," in Smith and Prokopy, Latin American (1999)

David A. Smilde, "The Fundamental Unity of the Conservative Revolutionary Tendencies in Venezuelan Evangelism: The Case of Conjugal Relations." Religion 27,4 (October, 1997)

Edward L. Cleary and Hannah Stewart-Gambino, Power (1997), passim

Maria das Dores Campos Machado, “SOS Mulher - A identidade feminina mídia pentecostal,”
Ciencias Sociales y Religion 1, 1 (Sept. 1999), pp. 167-188

Mormoms

Mark Grover, "Mormonism in Brazil", Indiana University diss. (1985)

Craig Livingston, "From Above and Below: The Mormom Embrace of Revolution, 1840-1940" (Mexico), Temple University diss. (2002).

Country Studies

Argentina

Daniel Míguez, "Exploring the Argentinian Case: Religious Motives in the Growth of Latin American Pentecostalism," in Smith and Prokopy, Latin American (1999)

Daniel Míguez, "The Modern, the Magic, and the Ludic: The Pentecostal View toward an Insecure Life, An Argentinian Case," in Boudewijnse, More (1999)

Daniel Míguez, "Why Are Pentecostals Politically Ambiguous? Pentecostalism and Politics in Argentina," European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 67 (Dec. 1999)

Daniel Míguez, Spiritual Bonfire in Argentina: Confronting Current Theories with an Ethnographic Account of Pentecostal Growth in a Buenos Aires Suburb (Amsterdam: Center for Latin American Studies, 1998)

Matthew Marostica, “La nueva política evangélica: El movimiento evangélico y el complot católico en La Argentina,” Ciencias Sociales y Religion 2 (Sept. 2000), pp. 11-30

Daniel Míguez, “Conversiones religiosas, conversiones seculares: Comparando las estrategias de transformación de identidad en programas de minoridad e iglesias pentecostales,” Ciencias
Sociales y Religion 2 (Sept. 2000), pp. 31-62.

Daniel Míguez, "Política y magia en un suburbio de Buenos Aires," Sociedad y Religion 16/17 (1997-1998)

Alejandro Frigerio, "Les 'sectes' vues par les 'religious:' le discours mídiatique des pretes et des pasteurs en Argentine," Social Compass 45,3 (1998)

José Míguez Bonino, "Argentina," in Sigmund, Religious (1999)

Matthew Marostica, "The Defeat of Denominational Culture in the Argentine Evangelical Movement," in Smith and Prokopy, Latin American (1999)

Hilario Wynarczyck, Pablo Semán, and Mercedes de Majo, eds., Panorama actual del campo evangélico en Argentina: Un estudio sociológico (1995)

Hilario Wynarczyck, “Tres evangelistas carismáticos: Omar Cabrera, Annacondia” (unpublished
manuscript)

Alejandro Figerio, ed., El pentecostalismo en Argentina (1994)

Norberto Saracco, “Argentine Pentecostalism: Its History and Theology,” Ph.D. thesis, University of Birmingham, 1989

 Matthew Marostica, “Pentecostals and Politics: The Creation of the Evangelical Movement in Argentina, 1983-1993,” Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1997; 

Alejandro Frigerio, ed., Nuevos movimientos religiosos y ciencias sociales vols. I and II, (1993)

David Bundy, "Pentecostalism in Argentina," [Review essay of works published to 1995], Pneuma 20,1 (Spring 1998)

Pablo Seman and Patricia Moreira, "La Iglesia Universal del Reino de Dios en Buenos Aires," Sociedad y Religion 16/17 (1997-1998)

Bolivia

Leslie Gill, "Like a Veil to Cover Them: Women and the Pentecostal Movement in La Paz," American Ethnologist 17,5 (1990), pp. 708-721
 

Brazil

Rowan Ireland, "Pentecostalism, Conversion, and Politics in Brazil," in Cleary and Stewart-Gambino, Power, Politics, and Pentecostals (1997)

Waldo Cesar and Richard Shaull, Pentecostalismo e o futuro das Igrejas Cristâs: Promessas e desafios (1999)

Ricardo Mariano, Neopentecostais: Sociologia do novo pentecostalism no Brasil (1999)

Júlia Miranda, Carisma, sociedade e política: Novas linguagems do religioso e do político (1999)

Rowan Ireland, Kingdoms Come: Religion and Politics in Brazil (1991)


John Burdick, Looking for God in Brazil: The Progressive Catholic Church in Urban Brazil’s Arena (1993)

Regina Reyes Novaes, “Pentecôtisme a la brèsilienne: Des controverses en cours,” Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions 105 (Jan.-Mar. 1999)

Cecília Loreto Mariz and María das Dores Campos Machado, “Changements rícents dans le
champ religieux brésilien,” Social Compass 45,3 (1998)

Ricardo Mariano, Neopentecostais: Sociologia do novo pentecostalismo no Brasil (1999)

André Corten, “Pentecôtalisme et ‘Néo-Pentecôtalisme’ en Bresil,” Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions 105 (Jan.-Mar. 1999)

Cecília Loreto Mariz, El debate en turno del pentecostalismo autónomo en Brasil,” Sociedad y Religión 13 (1995)

Paul Freston, “Neo-Pentecostalism in Brazil: Problems of Definition and the Struggle for Hegemony,” Archives de Sciencies Sociales des Religions 105 (Jan.-Mar. 1999)

María das Dores Campos Machado, Carsmáticos e pentecostais (1996)

Cecília Loreto Mariz, Coping with Poverty: Pentecostals and Christian Base Communities (1994)

Paul Freston, "Brother Votes for Brother: The New Politics of Proestantism in Brazil," in Garrard Burnett and Stoll, Rethinking

Angela Hoestka, "Rural Pentecostalism in Pernambuco (Brazil): More than a Symbolic Protest," in Boudewijnse, More (1998)

R. Andrew Chestnut, Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty (1997)

Reginaldo Prandi, "Religiâo paga, conversâo e serviço," Novos Estudos (1996)

Chile

Edward L. Cleary and Juan Sepúlveda, "Chilean Pentecostalism: Coming of Age," in Cleary and Stewart-Gambino, Power (1997)

Frans H. Kamsteeg, Prophetic Pentecostalism: A Case Study on Religion and Development Policy (1998)

Colombia

Rebecca Pierce Bomann, Faith in the Barrios: The Pentecostal Poor in Bogotá (1999)

Elizabeth Brusco, "Colombia," in Paul Sigmund, ed., Religious Freedom (1999)

Elizabeth Brusco, The Reformation of Machismo: Evangelical Conversion and Gender in Colombia (1995)

Cornelia Butler Flora, Pentecostalism in Colombia: Baptism by Fire and Spirit (1976)

Costa Rica

Timothy J. Steigenga, The Politics of Spirit: The Political Implications of Pentecostalized Religion in Costa Rica and Guatemala (2001)

Cuba

Jason Yaremko, U.S. Protestant Missions in Cuba: From Independence to Castro

Ecuador

A.M. Goffin, The Rise of Protestant Evangelism in Ecuador 1895-1990 (1994)

Guatemala

Virgina Garrard-Burnett, Protestantism in Guatemala: Living in the New Jerusalem (1998)

Timothy J. Steigenga, The Politics of Spirit: The Political Implications of Pentecostalized Religion in Costa Rica and Guatemala (2001)

Linda Green, "Shifting Affiliations: Social Exigencies and Evangelicos," Fear as a Way of Life: Mayan Widows in Rural Guatemala (1999)

Edward L. Cleary, "Evangelicals and Competition in Guatemala," in Cleary and Stewart- Gambino, Conflict (1992)

Everett Wilson, "Guatemalan Pentecostals: Something of Their Own," in Cleary and Stewart-Gambino, Power (1997)

Timothy Steigenga, "Guatemala," in Paul Sigmund, ed., Religious Freedom (1999)

Mexico

Kurt Bowen, Evangelism and Apostasy: The Evolution and Impact of Evangelicals in Modern Mexico (1996)

Allan Metz, "Protestantism in Mexico: Contemporary Contextual Developments," Journal of Church and State 36, 1 (1994)

Gary Gossens, Telling Maya Tales: Tzotzil Identities in Modern Mexico (1999)

Deborah Baldwin, Protestants and the Mexican Revolution: Missionaries, Ministers, and Social Change (1990)

Jean Pierre Bastian, Protestantismo y sociedad en Mêxico (1983)

Peru

Manuel M. Marzal, El protestantismo en los pueblos jóvenes de la Gran Lima (Lima: Cátedra de Misiología, 1996)

Puerto Rico

Samuel Cruz, Afro-Caribbean Influences in Puerto Rican Pentecostalism, Drew University diss. (2004).

Venezuela

David A. Smilde, "El Clamor por Venezuela: Latin American Evangelicalism as a Collective Action Frame," in Smith and Prokopy, Latin American

David A. Smilde, "Venezuela," in Paul Sigmund, ed., Religious Freedom (1999)

Brian Froehle, "Pentecostals and Evangelicals in Venezuela: Consolidating Gains, Moving in New Directions," in Cleary and Stewart-Gambino, Power (1997)

David A. Smilde, "The Fundamental Unity of the Conservative and Revolutionary Tendencies in Venezuelan Evangelism: The Case of Conjugal Relations," Religion  27, 4 (October, 1997)

David A. Smilde, "Beating Back the Enemy: How Venezuelan Pentecostals Think about Social Change," in Madeleine Cousineau, ed., Religion in a Changing World: Studies in Comparative Sociology (Westport, CT.: Praeger, 1998), pp.177-184; a slightly larger version is also in Sociology of Religion 59,3 (Fall 1998)

Caribbean

Stephen D. Glazier, ed., Perspectives on Pentecostalism: Studies from the Caribbean and Latin America (1980)

African-Latin American Religions

Primarily Brazil, Argentina, and Caribbean

African-based religions are found in other Latin American countries than Brazil and Caribbean nations, as Umbanda in Argentina. In Venezuela the cult of María Lionza can be found in many parts of Venezuela and has drawn attention of social scientists and of the sensationalist press. See:, for example: Angelina Pollack-Eltz, María Lionza: Mito and culto venezolano 2nd ed. (Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, 1985).

General

George Eaton Simpson, Black Religions in the New World (1978)

Brazil

General

Volney J. Berkenbrock, A experiencia dos orixas: um estudo sobre a experiencia religiosa no candomble (Petropolis: Editora Vozes, 1999).  Editor of SEDOC and Concilium presents his theological reflections on religious experience in Condomble.

Reginaldo Prandi, "As religiôes negras do Brasil: para uma sociología dos cultos afro-brasileiros," Revista USP 28 (Dec.-Feb., 1995), pp. 64-83

Joachim Piepke, "The Religious Heritage of Africa in Brazil: Investigations about the Religiosity of the Afro-Brazilians Today," Verbum SVD 33, 2 (1992), pp. 174-175

John Burdick, Blessed Anastácia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil (New York: Routledge, 1998)

Eduardo Hoornaert, "A devoçâo dos beatos negros," Revista de ciências sociais 18/19 (1987), pp. 15-36

David Hess, "Hierarchy, Heterodoxy, and the Construction of Brazilian Religious Therapies," in David Hess and Roberto da Matta, eds., The Brazilian Puzzle (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), pp. 180-208 

Older Views

Bastide, Les Religiones Africaines au Brasil (Paris: Presses Universitares de France, 1960) (English translation, African Religions of Brazil published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.)

George E. Simpson, Black Religions in the New World (1978)

Edison Carneiro, Condomblés da Bahia (Bahia: Museu do Estado, 1948)

Roger Bastide and Floristán Fernades, Brancos e negros em Sâo Paulo (Sâo Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional, 1971) 

Percentage Who Practice

María Isaura Pereira de Queiroz, "Afro-Brazilian Cults and Religious Change in Brazil," in James A. Beckford and Thomas Luckmann, eds., The Changing Face of Religion (Newbury Park, Ca.: Sage, 1989) p. 95, see also: fn. 7.; this estimate is repeated by Piepke, The Religious Heritage," (above) p. 180

Popular account

Ana Guillermoprieto, "Letter from Rio," The New Yorker

Institutionalization

see esp. Brown and Hess, below, and brief remarks made by Roberto Motta in "The Churchifying of Candomblé: Priests, Anthropologists, and the Canonization of African Religious Memory," paper given at Latin American Studies Assn. International Congress, 1992. 

Candomblé

Candomblé is not limited to the northeast and extended its influence to other parts of Brazil during the 1960s. 

Reginaldo Prandi, Os candomblés de São Paulo: A vehla magia para a metrópole nova (São Paulo: Hucitec e Edusp, 1991. Since the classic works by Roger Bastide, as O Candomblé da Bahia (Rito Nagó) (São Paulo: Editora Nacional), many other views of Candomblé have appeared. Works on Afro-Brazilian religions are extensive in Portuguese. See esp. those by Roberto Motta, as: "Indo-Afro-European Syncretic Cults in Brazil: Their Economic and Social Roots," Cahiers du Brasil Contemporain 5 (1988), pp. 27-48.

A division of Candomblé into "nations," according to the ethnic origin of the rites is attempted by authors in Vivaldo da Costa Lima (ed.), Encontro de nações de condomblé (Salvador: Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiáticos da Universidade Federal de Bahia e Ianamá, 1984).

Rita de Cassia Amaral and Vagner Gonçalves da Silva, "A cor de axé:brancos e negros no candomblé de Sâo Paulo," Estudos Afro-Asiáticos 25 (Dec. 1993), pp. 99-124

Enthobotany of Candomblé: Robert A. Voeks: Sacred Leaves of Candomblé: African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997)

Umbanda

Candido Procopio Ferreira de Camargo, Kardecimso e Umbanda (São Paulo: Pioneira, 1991); Diana DeG. Brown, Umbanda: Religion and Politics in Urban Brazil (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986); Maria Helena Villas Boas Concone, "Umbanda: Uma religião brasileira," thesis, Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences, University of São Paulo, 1987; Fernando Giobellina Brumana and Elda Gonzales Martínez, Spirits from the Margin: A Study in Popular Religion and Social Experience (Uppsala, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1989).

Spiritism

David J. Hess, Samba in the Night: Spiritism in Brazil (1994)

David J. Hess, Spirits and Scientists: Ideology, Spiritism, and Brazilian Culture (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991.) Hess's work includes an extensive and useful bibliography. 

Hess, "New Sciences, New Gods: Spiritism and Questions of Religious Pluralism in Latin America," Competing Gods: Religious Pluralism in Latin America (Providence, R.I.: Occasional Paper No. 11, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, 1992), pp. 29-30.

Argentina

Ari Pedro Oro, Axé Mercosul: As religiôes Afro-Brasileiras nos Países do Prata (Petropolis: Vozes, 1999)

Alejandro Frigerio,  “With the Banner of Oxalá: Social Construction and Maintenance of Reality in Afro-Brazilian Religions in Argentina,” doctoral diss. Dept. of Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1989; 

Alejandro Frigerio, “Establecendo pontes: Articulaçâo de significados e acomodaçâo social em movimentos religiosos no Cono Sul,” in Ari Oro and Carlos Steil, eds., Globalizaçâo e Religiâo (1997), pp. 153-178; 

Alejandro Frigerio and Ari Oro, “‘Sectas satánicas’ en el Mercado Sur. Un estudio de la construcción de la desviación religiosa en los medios de comunicación de Argentina y Brasil,” Horizontes Antropolicos (1998) 8, pp. 114-150

María Julia Carozzi and Alejandro Frigerio, “Nâo se nasce batuqueiro: A conversâo as religiôes afro-brasileiras em Buenos Aires,” Religiâo e Sociedade (1997) 18, pp. 71-94.

Alejandro Frigerio, “La invasión de las sectas: El dabate sobre nuevos movimiento religiosos en los medios de comunicación de Argentina,” Sociedad y Religión 10/11 (1993), pp. 24-51
 

Caribbean

George Brandon, Santería from Africa to the New World (1993)

See George Simpson (above)

Marguerite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, eds., Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santería, Obeah, and the Caribbean (1997)

Dale Bisnouth, History of Religion in the Caribbean (1996)

Haiti

Leslie G. Desmangles, The Face of God: Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti

Joan Dayan, Haiti, History, and the Gods Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995)

Deren, The Divine Horsemen: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti (New York: Delta Publishing, 1972); Métraux, Voodoo in Haiti 2nd ed. (New York: Schroken (check) Books, 1972) and "Les rites d"initiiastion dans le Vodou häitien," Tribus (Linden Museum, Stuttgart), 1954-55, n.s., 4/5: 177-98.

Roger Bastide, African Civilizations in the New World (New York: Harper and Row, 1971); Sidney Mintz, "Introduction," Metraux, Voodoo 2nd ed.; "Toward an Afro-American History," Cahier d"histoire mondiale 13 (1971), pp. 317-332; J. Price-Mars, Ainsi parle l"oncle (Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie La Phhlange, 1928); R. Bastien, La familia rural haitiana (Mexico City: Libra, 1951).

Ethnobiology of Voudou

Wade Davis, Passage of Darkness: The Enthnobiology of the Haitian Zombie (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988)

Santería in the United States

Joseph Murphy, Santería : An African Religion in the United States (Boston: Beacon Press)

Karen McCathy Brown, Mama Lola: A Voudou Priestess in Brooklyn (1991)

Indigenous Religion

General 

Manuel M. Marzal, Eugenio Maurer, Xavier Albó, and Bartomeu Melià, The Indian Face of God in Latin America (1996)

Guillermo Cook, ed., Crosscurrents in Indigenous Spitrituality: Interface of Maya, Catholic, and Protestant Worldviews (1997)

Periodicals

Pastoral Andina, Allphanchis, Aymar Yatiyawi, Abya Yala News, Revista Andina, and publications of CIPCA (Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado).

Andean Religion

Bolivia and Peru

Diego Irarrázaval, Rito y pensar cristiano (Lima: Centro de Estudios y Publicaciones, 1993) and Tradición y porvenir andino (Puno: Peru: Instituto de Estudios Aymaras, 1992);

Manuel Marzal, Transformación religiosa peruana (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 1988; (with Marzal as coordinator), El rostro indio de Dios (Lima: Pontifica Universidad del Perú, Fondo Editorial, 1991); Caminos religiosos de los inmigrantes en la Gran Lima: El caso de El Agostino (Lima: Fondo Editorial, Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, 1986); Estudios sobre religión campesina (Lima: Fondo Editorial, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 1977); El mundo religioso de Urcos: Un estudio de antropología religiosa y de pastoral campesina de los Andes (Cusco: Instituto de Pastoral Andina, 1971); El sincretismo iberoamericano: Un estudio comparativo sobre los quechuas (Cusco), los mayas (Chiapas) y los africanos (Bahia) (Lima: Fondo Editorial, Pontifica Universidad del Perú, 1988) 2nd ed. 

Luis Jolicoeur, El cristianismo aymara: Inculturación o culturazación? 

Luis Jolicoeur, Reflexión filosófica y fe cristiana (1988)

Xavier Albó, Thomas Greaves, and Godofredo Sandoval, Chukiyawu: La cara aymara de La Paz (La Paz: Cuadernos de Investigación CIPCA (Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado) Nos. 20, 22, 24, 29, 1981-1987). 

Esteban Judd, "La inculturación en el contexto andino: Rasgos de una presencia pastoral distinta," Misiones Extranjeras 116 (March-April 1990), pp. 105-121.

Enrique Jorda, La cosmovisión aymara en el diálogo de la fe: Teología desde el Titicaca (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica, 1980).

Sabine MacCormack, Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru (1991)

Ecuador

Mark Becker, “Class and Ethnicity in the Canton of Cayambe: The Roots of Ecuador’s Modern Indian Movement,” Ph.D. diss., University of Kansas (1997)

Barry J. Lyons, “Religion, Authority, and Identity: Intergenerational Politics, Ethnic Resurgence, and Respect in Chimborazo, Ecuador,” Latin American Research Review 36, 1 (2001), pp. 7-48.

Mary M. Crain, "Poetics and Politics in the Ecuadorian Andes: Women's Narratives of Death and Devil Possession," American Ethnologist 18,3 (1991), pp.67-89 

Leonidas Proaño, Luchador de la paz y de la vida (1989)

Leonidas Proaño, El profita del pueblo (1992)

Mayan Religion

Carlos Rafael Cabarrus, La cosmovisión k'ekchí en proceso de cambio (San Salvador: UCA Editores, 1979); Luis Pacheco, Religiosidad Maya-kekchí alrededor del maíz (San José, C.R.: Edicíon Escuela para Todos, 1985; and Pacheco, Tradiciones y costumbres del pueblo Maya-K'ekchí (San José, C.R.: Ediciones Amba, 1988).

Guatemala and Mexico

Linda Green, Ch. 7, “Shifting Affiliations: Social Exigencies and Evangélicos” in Fear as a Way of Life: Mayan Widows in Rural Guatemala (1999)

Richard Wilson, Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q’eqchi’ Experience (1995)

Thomas Bogenschild, “The Roots of Fundamentalism in Liberal Guatemala: Missionary Ideologies and Local Responses,” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley (1992)

Liliana Goldin and Brent Metz, “Expressions of Cultural Change: Invisible Converts to Protestantism among Highland Guatemala Maya,” Ethnology 30,4 (1991), pp. 325-338

Ricardo Falla, Quiche Rebelde (1980)

Kay Warren, Symbolism of Subordination: Indian Identity in a Guatemalan Town (1978)

Sheldon Annis, God and Production in a Guatemalan Town (1987)

Benjamin Paul, “Fifty Years of Religious Change in San Pedro La Laguna, a Mayan Community in Highland Guatemala,” paper for American Anthropological Association annual meeting (1987)

Douglas Britnall, Revolt against the Dead: The Modernization of a Mayan Community in the Highlands of Guatemala (1979)

June Nash, “Protestantism in an Indian Village,” Alpha Kappa Deltan (Winter 1960), pp. 49-53

James Sexton, “Protestantism and Modernism in Two Guatemalan Towns,” American Ethnologist 52, 2 (1978)

Guatemala -- Maya -- Sacred Texts

Tedlock, Dennis, trans. 1985. Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Guatemala -- Maya -- Popular Protestantism -- Ethnography

Scotchmer, David G. 1993. Life of the heart: a Maya Protestant spirituality. In South and Meso-American Native Spirituality: from the Cult of the Feathered Serpent to the Theology of Liberation, edited by Gary H. Gossen, pp. 496-525. New York: Crossroad.

Mexico -- Religious syncretism -- Resistance -- Colonial period

Gruzinski, Serge. 1989. Man-Gods in the Mexican Highlands: Indian Power and Colonial Society, 1520-1800. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Mexico -- Missionization -- History -- Colonial period -- Ideology

Florescano, Enrique. 1994. Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: From the Aztecs to Independence. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Mexico -- Missionization -- Catholic Church -- Colonial period

Ricard, Robert. 1966. The Spiritual Conquest of Mexico: An Essay on the Apostolate and the Evangelizing Methods of the Mendicant Orders in New Spain, 1523-1572. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Central Mexico -- Aztecs -- Religious syncretism -- Conquest period -- Ideology

Burkhart, Louise M. 1989. The slippery earth: Nahua-Christian moral dialogue in sixteenth-century Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Mexico -- Maya -- Popular Religions -- Resistance Movements (18th and 19th centuries)

Bricker, Victoria Reifler. 1981. The Indian Christ, the Indian king: The Historical Substrate of Maya Myth and Ritual. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Barabas, Alicia. 1974. Profetismo, milenarismo y mesianismo en las insurrecciones mayas de Yucatan. In International Congress of Americanists 41 (2): pp. 609-622.

Dumond, Don E. 1985. Talking Crosses of Yucatan: A New Look at Their History. Ethnohistory 32 (4): 291-308. 

Mexico -- Maya -- Pentecostalism -- Ethnography

Fortuny Loret de Mola, Patricia. 1994. Pentecostalism: Its Power of Transformation in Jalisco and Yucatan. [Spanish]. Nueva Antropologia 13 (45): 49-63.

Mexico -- Maya -- Popular Religions -- Ritual -- Ethnography

Villa Rojas, Alfonso. 1978. Los elegidos de Dios: Etnografia de los mayas de Quintana Roo. Mexico: Instituto Nacional Indigenista. 

Mexico -- Maya -- Indigenous Religion -- Ethnography

Tedlock, Barbara. 1982. Time and the Highland Maya. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Mexico -- Maya -- Popular Religions -- Healing -- Ethnography

Hanks, William F. 1984. Sanctification, Structure, and Experience in a Yucatec Ritual Event. Journal of American folklore 97 (384): 131-166. 

Mexico -- Maya -- Indigenous Religion 

Gossen, Gary H. 1999. From Olmecs to Zapatistas: A Once and Future History of Maya Souls. In Telling Maya Tales: Tzotzil Identities in Modern Mexico, pp. 225-245. New York: Routledge.

Mexico -- Indigenous Religion -- Ritual -- Healing -- Ethnography

Lipp, Frank J. 1991. The Mixe of Oaxaca: Religion, Ritual, and Healing. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Mexico -- Tzotzil Women -- Religion -- Alcohol use -- Ethnography

Eber, Christine Engla. 1995. Women & Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town: Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Mexico -- Religious syncretism -- Cult of the Dead

Nutini, Hugo G. 1988. Todos Santos in Rural Tlaxcala: A Syncretic, Expressive,and Symbolic Analysis of the Cult of the Dead. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
 

Indian Theology/Spirituality

General Theological Views

Jesús Espeja, "Inculturation and Indigenous Theology," in Cook, Crosscurrents

Peter Schineller, S.J., suggests a "hermeneutical circle" in which three poles - the Christian message, the cultural situation, and the pastoral agents - are used in evaluation. See his "Inculturation and Syncretism: What Is the Real Issue?," International Bulletin of Missionary Research 16, 2 (April 1992), pp. 49-53.

Indigenous Teology

Stephen P. Judd, "The Indigenous Theology Movement in Latin America," in Cleary and Steignega, Resurgent Voices

Virginia Garrard-Burnett, "God Was Already Here When Columbus Arrived: Inculturation Theology and the Mayan Movement in Guatemala" in Cleary and Steigenga, Resurgent Voices

Catholic

Eleazar López Hernández, "Teutlatolli: Speaking about God," in Cook, Crosscurrents

Edward L. Cleary, "Birth of Indigenous Theology," in Cook, Crosscurrents

Stephen Judd,, "From Lamentation to Project: The Emergence of an Indigenous Theological Movement in Latin America," in Alfred T. Hennelly, Santo Domingo and Beyond (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1993), pp. 226-227

Diego Irarrázaval, "Teología Aymara: Implicaciones para otras teologías," Revista Latinoamericana de Teología 9, 25 (Jan.- April 1992), p. 100.

James B. Nickoloff, "Indigenous Theology and Andean Resistance to Spanish Colonial Rule: The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru (1780-1782)," Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology 2, 1 (August 1994), pp. 4-27
 

Catholic Church Policy and Practice

Oscar Osorio Jaramillo, De una pastoral indigenista a una pastoral indígena (Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano,1987)

Juan Bottaso, Evangelio y culturas: Documentos de la Iglesia latinoamericano (1992)

Juan Bottaso, La Iglesia y los indios: 500 años de diálogo o de agresión? 1990)

Juan Bottaso, ed., Las misiones salesianas en un continente que se transforma (1982)

Juan Bottaso, ed., Política indigenista de la Iglesia en la colonia (1991)
 

Christianity and Inculturation/Catholic Views

Diego Irarrázaval, Inculturation: New Dawn of the Church in Latin America (2000)

Paulo Suess, “Evangelización desde las culturas,” in Vida, clamor y esperanza (1992), pp. 21-238

Paulo Suess, Evangelizar a partir de los projectos históricos dos outros (1995)

Franz Damen, Hacia una teología de la inculturación (1989)

Leonardo Boff, Nova evangeliçâo (1990) [also an English translation]

Diego Irarrázaval, Cultura y fe latinoamercanas (Santiago: Ediciones Rehue, 1994)

Cristián Parker and Ricardo Salas, eds., Cristianismo y culturas latinoamericanas (Santiago: Ediciones Paulinas, 1992)

Jesús Espepa, ed., Inculturación y teología indígena (Salamanca: Editorial San Esteban, 1993)

Jesús Espeja, El evangelio en nuevas culturas (Estella, Spain: Editorial Verbo Divino, 1992)

Protestant

Facundo Ku Canché, "Indigenous Theology: A Reformed Perspective," in Cook, Crosscurrents

Moisés Colop, "Is Christ Being Resurrected among the Indigenous?," in Cook, Crosscurrents
 

Indigenous Movements

Edward L. Cleary and Timothy Steignega, eds., Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change

Alison Brysk, From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America (2000) [Numerous references to Catholic Church]

Kay B. Warren, Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala (1998)

Deborah Yashar, “Contesting Citizenship: Indigenous Movements and Democracy in Latin
America,” Comparative Politics (Oct. 1998)

Richard Wilson, Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q’eqchi’ Experience (1995)

Kevin Healy, “Allies and Opposition Groups to the 1990 Indigenous Political Mobilizations in
Ecuador and Bolivia,” paper for Latin American Studies Association International Congress, 1992

Maurico Gnerre and Juan Botaso, Del indigenismo a las organizaciones indígenas (1986)

Mark Becker, “Class and Ethnicity in the Canton of Cayambe: The Roots of Ecuador’s Modern
Indian Movement,” Ph.D. diss., University of Kansas (1997)

Edward F. Fischer and R. McKenna Brown, eds., Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996)

Donna Lee Van Cott, ed., Indigenous Peoples and Democracy in Latin America (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994)

Carol Smith, "Maya Nationalism," Report on the Americas 25, 3, (Dec. 1991), p. 29. Earlier accounts for Mayans: Arturo Arias, "El movimiento indígena en Guatemala: 1970-1983," in Daniel Camacho and Rafael Menjívar, eds., Movimientos populares en Centroamérica (San Jose, C.R.: Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana, 1985), pp. 62-119 and "Changing Indian Identity: Guatemala's Violent Transition to Modernity," in Carol Smith, ed., Guatemalan Indians and the State: 1540 to 1998 (Austin, University of Texas Press, 1990), pp. 258-286; and Ricardo Falla, "El movimiento indígena," ECA - Estudios Centroamericanos 33, (June-July 1978), pp. 437-461. For issues involved in the Andes, see: Les Field, "Ecuador's Pan-Indian Uprising," Report on the Americas, 25, 3 (Dec. 1991), pp. 39-44.

Indigenous movements and rebellions are largely overlooked by historians. See, for example: Víctor Hugo Cárdenas, "La lucha de un pueblo," in Xavier Albó, comp., Raices de América: El mundo Aymara (Madrid: Unesco, 1988), pp. 495-534.
 

 


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