New Age in Latin America: Popular Variations and Ethnic Appropriations

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

List of Contributors

PART 1: Debates on the Interaction between New Age and Local Latin American Cultures

Introduction

1: Indo- and Afro-American Religiosities, and Circuits of New Age Spirituality

2: Logics and Limits of New Age Appropriations: Where Syncretism Comes to an End

PART 2: Latin American Neo-shamanisms

Introduction

3: The New Age Movement and Urban Shamanism in Brazil

4: Endo- and Exo-shamanism in Mexico: Doctrines Disputing over ‘Ethnic Spirituality’

5: The Thirteen Grandmothers of the World: An Example of Cosmopolitan Shamanism

6: Strategies for Resistance and the Negotiation of Cultural Goods in Wixaritari Shamanism: Processes of Articulation

PART 3: Popular Medicines, Healing and New Age Therapy Circuits

Introduction

7: Catholicism and the New Age: A Cure through Liberation and Finding Oneself, in a Charismatic Catholic Ritual

8: Santeria and New Age: Interactions, Limits and Complementarities

9: The Journey of San Simón from Guatemala to the United States: Processes of Reappropriation of a Popular Saint of Guatemala

10: Post-colonial Narratives: The Resignifying of the Aztec Conchero Dance as a New Age Therapeutic Practice in Mexico and Spain

11: Unconventional Religiosities and the New Age in Vale do Amanhecer (the Valley of the Dawn), Brasilia

PART 4: Ethnic Traditions and New Age

Introduction

12: The Process of Resignifying the Traditional Religions, and New Spiritual Currents in Brazilian Society

13: The Invention of Andean New Age: The Globalization of Tradition

14: The Reinterpretation of Oxlajuj b’aqtun in Guatemala: Between the New Age and Mayan Reconstitution

15: The Conchero Dance and the Conquest of Cyberspace

Final Notes

Bibliography

Index