Abstract

RODRIGUEZ, María Teresa. An Approach to the Process of Religious Diversification in a Nahua Municipality. Alteridades [online]. 2013, vol.23, n.45, pp.25-35. ISSN 2448-850X.

In the Nahua settlements of the High Mountains region (center of Veracruz, Mexico), the traditional Catholicism and a scheme of social organization that integrates civic and religious actions in a unique symbolic universe, demonstrated a relative homogeneity until the beginning of the 80s. While in a small number of locations the presence of evangelic churches was registered, the religious difference became more noticeable from the last decade of the 20th century, within a context of crisis concerning the relation of the population and their access to land and an increase in transnational migratory flows. From a study case, the development of evangelic organizations -mostly Pentecostals- is set as an example, within this frame of redefinition of ethnic dynamics.

Keywords : Nahua; Pentecostalism; tradition; religion.