Eric Hoenes Del Pinal
Biographic Data
| ID | 215657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Hoenes Del Pinal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric Hoenes |
| FAMILY NAME | Del Pinal |
| SIGNATURE | DEL PINAL E H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5548-9884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Uncanny Lords of the Mountains and Valleys
In Q’eqchi’-Maya cosmology mountain deities called Tzuultaq’as govern the land and thus play a significant role in sustaining human life. They likewise have the power to disrupt it and are not reticent to do so when people fail to pay them adequate respect. Those disruptions can take the form of weather-related events that can be described using Amitav Ghosh's term the 'environmental uncanny' (i.e., when otherwise 'natural' phenomena become unnat…
The Church of the Dead
The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas. By Jennifer Scheper Hughes. 2021. New York: New York University Press. 264pp. $75 (hardcover), $23 (paperback), $35 (e- book)
Undoing Modernity
La Muerte de Farruko Pop /The Death of Farruko Pop
In May 2024, the body of Farruko Pop—a Q'eqchi’‐Maya singer and social media influencer—was found buried in a shallow grave in Guatemala City. Although he was just 18 years old and from a small rural community, his murder made front‐page news and became the major subject of commentary and speculation in the country. This open‐ended narration of that event explores the uncertainties of life and death facing young indigenous people in contemporary …
Data
Ethnographic research involves coming to know a society’s culture and religion in several different ways both quantitative and qualitative. Interviewing, field recordings, systematic observation and the researcher’s own (inter-)subjective experiences are some of the most common methods of ethnographic data collection, but integrating these multiple methods is no mean task. Every method presents unique possibilities and problems for answering our …
The Social Life of Scriptures
What do Christians do with the Bible? How do theyùindividually and collectivelyùinteract with the sacred texts? Why does this engagement shift so drastically among and between social, historical, religious, and institutional contexts? Such questions are addressed in a most enlightening, engaging, and original way in The Social Life of Scriptures. Contributors offer a collection of closely analyzed and carefully conducted ethnographic and historic…
The Paradox of Charismatic Catholicism
Reading Laudato Si’ in the Verapaz
As global climate change is becoming an increasing worry, Q’eqchi’-Maya Catholics in Guatemala have begun drawing Pope Francis encyclical Laudato Si’ into their discourse about the environment. This article examines how Catholic teachings and Maya culture come together to shape Q’eqchi’-Mayas’ views on climate change, and argues that these processes offer anthropologists of Catholicism insight into how we might better understand Catholicism as a …
The Promises and Perils of Radio as a Medium of Faith in a Q’eqchi’-Maya Catholic Community
Because their parish is large, dispersed, and overwhelmingly rural, FM radio is one of the few reliable means through which the Q’eqchi’-Maya Catholics of San Felipe in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, can communicate with each other en masse. Yet, because it is a one-way medium, it is also impossible to gauge how its intended audience is responding, or if is even there to receive broadcasted messages. Drawing on ethnographic material collected in 2005 (…
Introduction
The Paradox of Charismatic Catholicism
Coupling Catholic doctrine with ‘ecstatic’ forms of worship more often associated with Pentecostal/Charismatic forms of Protestantism, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement (CCRM) has seen rapid global expansion over the past four decades, but in doing so it has been institutionally, theologically, and socially problematic for traditionally more orthodox Catholic communities. In simultaneously claiming continuity with the institutional body o…
Returning to the Tzuultaq'a
A Ritual Interrupted
Although Q’eqchi’-Maya Mainstream Catholics and Charismatic Catholics in the Guatemala highlands share many of the same physical and social spaces, the relationship between them is a tense one due to their differing modes of ritual practice. Although this conflict rarely comes to a head directly, on one particular occasion a highly ranked member of a Mainstream congregation, and indeed an outspoken critic of the Charismatics, entered the village …
From Vatican II to speaking in tongues
Towards an Ideology of Gesture
While much attention has been paid to how linguistic practices and language ideologies shape local forms of Christianity, relatively little attention has been paid to the role that non-verbal communicative codes and people's ideas about them play in these same processes. This paper analyzes the gestural and bodily practices of Q'eqchi'-Maya Catholics belonging to two denominations (Mainstream and Charismatic Catholicism) to argue that non-linguis…
Introduction
As the careful reader may intuit from looking at the title situated above, this special section of Anthropological Quarterly is entitled Beyond Logos: Extensions of the Language Ideology Paradigm the Study of Global Christianity(-ies). This title is inelegant enough that it perhaps warrants an explanation. Why entitle it Beyond Logos? What is meant by why is something that we should wish to go beyond, and what does this going beyond have to do wi…
Introduction
As the careful reader may intuit from looking at the title situated above, this special section of Anthropological Quarterly is entitled Beyond Logos: Extensions of the Language Ideology Paradigm the Study of Global Christianity(-ies). This title is inelegant enough that it perhaps warrants an explanation. Why entitle it Beyond Logos? What is meant by why is something that we should wish to go beyond, and what does this going beyond have to do wi…
Towards an Ideology of Gesture
While much attention has been paid to how linguistic practices and language ideologies shape local forms of Christianity, relatively little attention has been paid to the role that non-verbal communicative codes and people's ideas about them play in these same processes. This paper analyzes the gestural and bodily practices of Q'eqchi'-Maya Catholics belonging to two denominations (Mainstream and Charismatic Catholicism) to argue that non-linguis…
Returning to the Tzuultaq'a
A Ritual Interrupted
Although Q’eqchi’-Maya Mainstream Catholics and Charismatic Catholics in the Guatemala highlands share many of the same physical and social spaces, the relationship between them is a tense one due to their differing modes of ritual practice. Although this conflict rarely comes to a head directly, on one particular occasion a highly ranked member of a Mainstream congregation, and indeed an outspoken critic of the Charismatics, entered the village …
From Vatican II to speaking in tongues
Towards an Ideology of Gesture
While much attention has been paid to how linguistic practices and language ideologies shape local forms of Christianity, relatively little attention has been paid to the role that non-verbal communicative codes and people's ideas about them play in these same processes. This paper analyzes the gestural and bodily practices of Q'eqchi'-Maya Catholics belonging to two denominations (Mainstream and Charismatic Catholicism) to argue that non-linguis…
Introduction
As the careful reader may intuit from looking at the title situated above, this special section of Anthropological Quarterly is entitled Beyond Logos: Extensions of the Language Ideology Paradigm the Study of Global Christianity(-ies). This title is inelegant enough that it perhaps warrants an explanation. Why entitle it Beyond Logos? What is meant by why is something that we should wish to go beyond, and what does this going beyond have to do wi…
From Vatican II to speaking in tongues
A Ritual Interrupted
Although Q’eqchi’-Maya Mainstream Catholics and Charismatic Catholics in the Guatemala highlands share many of the same physical and social spaces, the relationship between them is a tense one due to their differing modes of ritual practice. Although this conflict rarely comes to a head directly, on one particular occasion a highly ranked member of a Mainstream congregation, and indeed an outspoken critic of the Charismatics, entered the village …
The Paradox of Charismatic Catholicism
Coupling Catholic doctrine with ‘ecstatic’ forms of worship more often associated with Pentecostal/Charismatic forms of Protestantism, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement (CCRM) has seen rapid global expansion over the past four decades, but in doing so it has been institutionally, theologically, and socially problematic for traditionally more orthodox Catholic communities. In simultaneously claiming continuity with the institutional body o…
Returning to the Tzuultaq'a
The Paradox of Charismatic Catholicism
Reading Laudato Si’ in the Verapaz
As global climate change is becoming an increasing worry, Q’eqchi’-Maya Catholics in Guatemala have begun drawing Pope Francis encyclical Laudato Si’ into their discourse about the environment. This article examines how Catholic teachings and Maya culture come together to shape Q’eqchi’-Mayas’ views on climate change, and argues that these processes offer anthropologists of Catholicism insight into how we might better understand Catholicism as a …
The Promises and Perils of Radio as a Medium of Faith in a Q’eqchi’-Maya Catholic Community
Because their parish is large, dispersed, and overwhelmingly rural, FM radio is one of the few reliable means through which the Q’eqchi’-Maya Catholics of San Felipe in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, can communicate with each other en masse. Yet, because it is a one-way medium, it is also impossible to gauge how its intended audience is responding, or if is even there to receive broadcasted messages. Drawing on ethnographic material collected in 2005 (…
Introduction
The Social Life of Scriptures
What do Christians do with the Bible? How do theyùindividually and collectivelyùinteract with the sacred texts? Why does this engagement shift so drastically among and between social, historical, religious, and institutional contexts? Such questions are addressed in a most enlightening, engaging, and original way in The Social Life of Scriptures. Contributors offer a collection of closely analyzed and carefully conducted ethnographic and historic…
Data
Ethnographic research involves coming to know a society’s culture and religion in several different ways both quantitative and qualitative. Interviewing, field recordings, systematic observation and the researcher’s own (inter-)subjective experiences are some of the most common methods of ethnographic data collection, but integrating these multiple methods is no mean task. Every method presents unique possibilities and problems for answering our …
The Church of the Dead
The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas. By Jennifer Scheper Hughes. 2021. New York: New York University Press. 264pp. $75 (hardcover), $23 (paperback), $35 (e- book)
Undoing Modernity
La Muerte de Farruko Pop /The Death of Farruko Pop
In May 2024, the body of Farruko Pop—a Q'eqchi’‐Maya singer and social media influencer—was found buried in a shallow grave in Guatemala City. Although he was just 18 years old and from a small rural community, his murder made front‐page news and became the major subject of commentary and speculation in the country. This open‐ended narration of that event explores the uncertainties of life and death facing young indigenous people in contemporary …
The Uncanny Lords of the Mountains and Valleys
In Q’eqchi’-Maya cosmology mountain deities called Tzuultaq’as govern the land and thus play a significant role in sustaining human life. They likewise have the power to disrupt it and are not reticent to do so when people fail to pay them adequate respect. Those disruptions can take the form of weather-related events that can be described using Amitav Ghosh's term the 'environmental uncanny' (i.e., when otherwise 'natural' phenomena become unnat…
Sociology (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Maya (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works)