Popular-Indigenous Catholicism in Southern Mexico

This paper examines popular indigenous religiosity in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca 1990s, context a “progressive” pastoral program formed within campaign New Evangelization, and attuned to region’s large population. Based on ethnographic research an urban Oaxacan context, I offer account Catholic ritualization death which highlights its independence, sensuous, material, collective orientation. approach Catholicism as field potential tension, hybridity, indeterminacy, encompassing discourses teachings Church continuous interaction with people’s own sacred imaginaries domestic devotional practices.