The Pentecostal Re-Formation of Self

Opting for Orthodoxy in Yucatán

Bibliographic Data

ID3233676
AuthorsChristine A Kray (Rochester Institute of Technology, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume29
Issue4
Pages395-429
Publication date2001-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/eth.2001.29.4.395
OpenAlexW2099883697
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited31

This article examines the dialectical relationship between religious worship and the sense of self. Even while the postmodern self is fragmented and shifting, people may seek religious experiences that oblige them to enact integrated ways of being. In Yucatán in the 1990s, competing values of relationality and autonomy created psychic and socialfriction. Through their religious worship and life narratives, Yucatecan Pentecostal converts resolved some of this tension by constructing themselves as individuals. Rather than playing with hybridity, they opted for discipline, orthodoxy, and integration

Aesthetics · Autonomy · Dialectic · Epistemology · Hybridity · Narrative · Orthodoxy · Political science · Psychic · Religious experience · Sociology · Theology · Worship · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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