Articles about "religion studies"

Reseñas críticas

Las sectas protestantes y el espíritu del (anti-)imperialismo. Entrelazamientos religiosos en las Américas (Ensayos Interamericanos, 8)

Heinrich W. Schäfer, 2020 Kipu/CIAS, Bielefeld, 250 pp.

Interamerican Protestantisms

  • Ezer Roboam May May

Schäfer shows that the same religious dispositions of American Protestantism are re-signified in different ways in the Latin American adoption process; one can speak of a Protestantism of the left and of the right, which, in turn, maintain ties with religious organizations in the North.

Reseñas críticas

Dos narizones no se pueden besar. Trayectorias, usos y prácticas de la tradición orisha en Yucatán

Nahayeilli Juárez Huet, 2019 CIESAS-UNAM, Mexico: , 319 pp.

Transatlantic Dialogs: The Paths of Believing. Circulation, Relocation and Reinterpretation of the Orisha Tradition

  • Gabriela Castillo Terán

Although there is a long tradition of important research on Santeria and African culture in Mexico, the work of Nahayeilli Juarez Huet is undoubtedly the most important recent research because it is current, complete, extensive and careful. This work is essential reading to understand the dynamics of the orisha tradition in Mexico and its relationship with Cuba and Nigeria, where she also explores the links with Christianity and Islam.

Reseñas críticas

Ser testigo de Jehová. Una mirada antropológica a la vida en el paraíso terrenal

Antonio Higuera Bonfil, 2018 El Colegio de la Frontera Norte / UQROO / RIFREM, México, 355 pp.

Eternal life thanks to religious conversion

  • Miguel Lisbona Guillén

WIn a classic format, logical because it is a book resulting from a doctoral thesis, the work of Antonio Higuera Bonfil contains three life stories of members of the religious group Jehovah's Witnesses in El Palmar, a town in the state of Quintana Roo (Mexico ), an ejido that is described in profusion of detail, beyond its religious characteristics.

Coloquios interdisciplinarios

Comment to the colloquium "Inequalities and the re-politicization of the social in Latin America" by
  • Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz
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Where do we analytically place religion? Challenges for a transdisciplinary analysis on marginalization in Latin America

  • Cristina Gutierrez Zuniga

Keywords: studies of religion, social experience, individuation, interdiscipline, subordinate sectors.

Whis commentary questions some of Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz's approaches to the possibilities of empowering subaltern sectors to resist social marginalization through religion. The author accepts the challenge of transdisciplinary dialogue and wonders in what theoretical place religious studies are placed and how the author constructs the selection of works on which he bases his argument. The main point he proposes is that religion cannot be treated as a specific section in the analysis because it is a transversal dimension of social experience. To this end, he points out several situations that offer a kaleidoscopic vision of the role of religion.