All Religions Are Good in Tzintzuntzan
Subtitle: Evangelicals in Catholic Mexico
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: October 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780292705388
Subjects: Anthropology; Independent Evangelical Churches; Social Science; Sociology; Religion; Anthropology - Cultural; General; Sociology of Religion; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; 20th century; Catholic Church; Christian sociology; Church history; Evangelicalism; Mexico; Relations; Tzintzuntzan; Tzintzuntzan (Mexico)
Description: In this paradigm-challenging study, Peter Cahn investigates why the coming of evangelical churches to Tzintzuntzan has produced neither the interfaith clashes nor the economic prosperity that evangelical conversion has brought to other communities in Mexico and Latin America. Drawing on extensive ethnographic field work, he demonstrates that the evangelicals' energetic brand of faith has not erupted into violence because converts continue to participate in communal life, while Catholics, in turn, participate in evangelical practices. He also underscores how Tzintzuntzan's integration into global economic networks strongly motivates the preservation of community identity and encourages this mutual borrowing. At the same time, however, Cahn concludes that the suppression of religious difference undremines the revolutionalry potential of religion."--Back cover.