Abstract

MONTESI, Laura. Living in (dis)continuity: Reconfiguration of religious subjectivities in an Ikojts community of Oaxaca. Desacatos [online]. 2016, n.50, pp.122-137. ISSN 2448-5144.

In the Ikojts community of San Dionisio del Mar, Oaxaca, religious subjectivities live in the midst of apparently divergent traditions and reconfigure them-selves around (dis)continuities. Both Catholics and Protestants use the topoi of modernity and tradition depending on contingent circumstances that demand confrontation or negotiation. In this article I explore the multiple ways in which the Ikojts craft their religious identities through an ongoing play of meaningful inconsistencies. I show that the analysis of religious conversions should not polarize around break or continuity but include the possibility of (dis)continuity.

Keywords : religious reconstitution; conversions; (dis)continuity; modernity; tradition.