Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala

Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala
Author: John P. Hawkins
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2021
Genre: Mayas
ISBN: 0826362257


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Drawing on over fifty years of research and data collected by field-school students, Hawkins argues that two factors--cultural collapse and systematic social and economic exclusion--explain the recent religious transformation of Maya Guatemala and the style and emotional intensity through which that transformation is expressed.


Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala
Language: en
Pages: 436
Authors: John P. Hawkins
Categories: Mayas
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

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Drawing on over fifty years of research and data collected by field-school students, Hawkins argues that two factors--cultural collapse and systematic social an
Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala
Language: en
Pages: 408
Authors: John P. Hawkins
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-01 - Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

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Mayas, and indeed all Guatemalans, are currently experiencing the collapse of their way of life. This collapse is disrupting ideologies, symbols, life practices
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Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Amy L. Sherman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-05-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Ever since Max Weber started an argument about the role of Protestantism in jump-starting northern Europe's economic development, scholars have clashed over the
Maya Resurgence in Guatemala
Language: en
Pages: 396
Authors: Richard Wilson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-09-01 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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Across Guatemala, Mayan peoples are struggling to recover from decades of cataclysmic upheaval--religious conversions, civil war, displacement, military repress
Contemporary Maya Spirituality
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Jean Molesky-Poz
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-23 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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An authoritative study of the indigenous religion still practiced in Guatemala based on extensive original research and participant observation. Jean Molesky-Po