New Age in Latin America
Subtitle: Popular Variations and Ethnic Appropriations
Publisher: BRILL; Brill
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9789004316331
Subjects: Latin america, religion
Description: 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 with 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? (Publisher).