Resumen

SANCHEZ FRANCO, Irene. Re-creation of Protestantisms in the Border Town Las Margaritas, Chiapas. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2019, vol.14, e399.  Epub 07-Ago-2020. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2019.v14.399.

Protestantism in Chiapas has been adressed as a research topic since the late eighties. Until then, it had been deemed a topic of little importance to explain social transformations and socio-cultural identities, particularly among indigenous populations. As precedent, a text published in 1991 by Aída Hernández references the way in which Jehova’s Witnesses re-created and appropriated religious doctrine in a Chuj-Kanjobal community in Chiapas using their own cultural frameworks. My interest is to show how, over time, protestant doctrine has become a part of the daily lives of the Tojolabal non-catholic population in Las Margaritas. This would in turn lay the foundation to understand and explain protestantisms in this and other regions in Chiapas from a perspective that views indigenous population as active agents with an ability to pick up on outside influences and incorpórate them into their way of life, be it religion, politics, or diverse projects. This would not necessarily asume the displacement of culture in fase of the new, but rather an enriched day-to-day life.

Palabras llave : Non-Catholics; religious conversion; appropriation; culture; doctrine.

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