New age in Latin America : popular variations and ethnic appropriations /

New age in Latin America : popular variations and ethnic appropriations /

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...

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Other Authors: Torre, Renée de la., Gutiérrez Zúñiga, Cristina., Juárez Huet, Nahayeilli.

Format: eBook

Language: English
Spanish

Published: Boston : Brill, 2016.

Series: Religion in the Americas 16.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303942.

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New Age movement > Latin America.
Spiritual life > New Age movement.
Christianity and other religions > New Age movement.
Latin America > Religion.

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Call Number: BP605.N48

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Renée de la Torre , Cristina Gutiérrez Zúñiga and Nahayeilli B. Juárez Huet
  • Introduction to Part 1 /
  • Renée de la Torre , Cristina Gutiérrez Zúñiga and Nahayeilli B. Juárez Huet
  • Indo- and Afro-American Religiosities, and Circuits of New Age Spirituality /
  • Renée de la Torre
  • Logics and Limits of New Age Appropriations: Where Syncretism Comes to an End /
  • Alejandro Frigerio
  • Introduction to Part 2 /
  • Renée de la Torre , Cristina Gutiérrez Zúñiga and Nahayeilli B. Juárez Huet
  • The New Age Movement and Urban Shamanism in Brazil /
  • José Guilherme Cantor Magnani
  • Endo- and Exo-shamanism in Mexico: Doctrines Disputing over 'Ethnic Spirituality' /
  • Jacques Galinier
  • The Thirteen Grandmothers of the World: An Example of Cosmopolitan Shamanism /
  • María Teresa Rodríguez
  • Strategies for Resistance and the Negotiation of Cultural Goods in Wixaritari Shamanism: Processes of Articulation /
  • Alejandra Aguilar Ros
  • Introduction to Part 3 /
  • Renée de la Torre , Cristina Gutiérrez Zúñiga and Nahayeilli B. Juárez Huet
  • Catholicism and the New Age: A Cure through Liberation and Finding Oneself, in a Charismatic Catholic Ritual /
  • Carlos Alberto Steil
  • Santeria and New Age: Interactions, Limits and Complementarities /
  • Nahayeilli B. Juárez Huet
  • The Journey of San Simón from Guatemala to the United States: Processes of Reappropriation of a Popular Saint of Guatemala /
  • Sylvie Pédron Colombani
  • Post-colonial Narratives: The Resignifying of the Aztec Conchero Dance as a New Age Therapeutic Practice in Mexico and Spain /
  • Cristina Gutiérrez Zúñiga
  • Unconventional Religiosities and the New Age in Vale do Amanhecer (the Valley of the Dawn), Brasilia /
  • Deis Siqueira
  • Introduction to Part 4 /
  • Renée de la Torre , Cristina Gutiérrez Zúñiga and Nahayeilli B. Juárez Huet
  • The Process of Resignifying the Traditional Religions, and New Spiritual Currents in Brazilian Society /
  • Silas Guerriero
  • The Invention of Andean New Age: The Globalization of Tradition /
  • Antoinette Molinié
  • The Reinterpretation of Oxlajuj b'aqtun in Guatemala: Between the New Age and Mayan Reconstitution /
  • Santiago Bastos , Marcelo Zamora and Engel Tally
  • The Conchero Dance and the Conquest of Cyberspace /
  • Renée de la Torre and Lizette Campechano
  • Final Notes /
  • Cristina Gutiérrez Zúñiga and Renée de la Torre
  • Bibliography /
  • Renée de la Torre , Cristina Gutiérrez Zúñiga and Nahayeilli B. Juárez Huet
  • Index /
  • Renée de la Torre , Cristina Gutiérrez Zúñiga and Nahayeilli B. Juárez Huet.