This paper analyzes the everyday experiences of 20 individuals from two prominent postdenominational congregations in northwestern Mexico that branched off from Pentecostal and Evangelical transnational churches. Using the life-story method and the lived religion approach will allow for the understanding of how postdenominationalism emerged in the region and why these congregations have been undergoing a series of deinstitutionalizing innovations that ring closer to the expectations that millennials have regarding the emotional, the intellectual, the social, and the cultural aspects of their lives. This phenomenon not only echoes with the idea of the deconstructed church that Marti and Ganiel described among millennials in the US (Marti and Ganiel 2014 ), it also imposes a challenge for Latin American religious studies, whose trend has been to ignore the postdenominational category, favoring the continued use of Pentecostal and/or Neopentecostal/charismatic to refer to these congregations, which makes it difficult to understand the changes, the innovation, and the deconstructive processes that postdenominational churches have been undergoing in the last three decades.
Este artículo analiza los mecanismos de inclusión existentes al interior de tres iglesias postdenominacionales en México que poseen elementos de lo que se denomina iglesia deconstruida. Se argumenta que estas congregaciones promueven condiciones equitativas y anti-discriminatorias para mujeres y también para personas LGBTQIA+ mediante recursos discursivos y materiales que facilitan la detonación de un proceso de deconstrucción religiosa que, a pesar de representar una afrenta a los preceptos cristianos-institucionales tradicionales, logra colaborar con ellos para gozar de legitimidad simbólica dentro de las redes evangélico-pentecostales.
El objetivo de la obra reseñada es hacer un análisis comparativo entre las fronteras de Brasil y la de México-Estados Unidos. Se enfoca en los procesos de securitización que se han dado a lo largo de las últimas décadas y que han impactado en la capacidad de tránsito y flujo a través de dichas fronteras, y también en la calidad de vida de las personas y las regiones aledañas a estas franjas fronterizas. En términos metodológicos, la información de cada apartado se nutre de la investigación bibliográfica y, sobre todo, de datos etnográficos, los cuales son producto del trabajo de campo realizado. El resultado de esta combinación es una serie de reflexiones actualizadas con respecto al estado presente de las dinámicas fronterizas en el norte y en el sur del continente. Se llega, además, a un conjunto de conclusiones que demuestran que el incremento en la securitización y en la fronterización de ambas regiones tiene que ver con un Estado cada vez más restrictivo y cauteloso contra la otredad.
ObjectiveThis paper describes the impact that the different COVID-19 related restrictions have had on the mental health and wellbeing of 57 Central American and Caribbean immigrants stranded in Mexico due to the pandemic.MethodsEthnographic data was obtained through the application of in-depth interviews centered on topics such as migration history, personal experience with COVID-19 and beliefs about the pandemic. This information was further analyzed through a narrative approach and Atlas Ti.Main findingsUS Title 42 and the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) have stranded thousands of individuals in the US-Mexico border region, a situation that has overcrowded the available shelters in the area and forced many of the immigrants to live on the streets and in improvised encampments. Thus, exposing them to a higher risk of contagion. Furthermore, the majority of the interviewed Central American and Caribbean immigrants consider that Mexico is more lenient when it comes to the enforcement of sanitary measures, especially when compared to their countries of origin. Finally, vaccination hesitancy was low among the interviewees, mainly due to the operative aspects of the vaccination effort in Mexico and the fear of ruining their chances to attain asylum in the US. These findings are backed up by the discovery of five recurring narratives among the interviewees regarding: (1) The pandemic's psychological impact. (2) The uncertainty of being stranded in Mexico and the long wait. (3) Their fear of violence over the fear of contagion. (4) The perceived leniency of Mexico with the pandemic when compared to their countries of origin, and (5) their beliefs about the pandemic and vaccines.Key findingThe mental health of stranded Central American and Caribbean immigrants in Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic is mostly affected by their inability to make it across the US-Mexico border using legal means.
El cristianismo postdenominacional presenta novedades considerables en los estilos de culto y en la estructura organizativa congregacional que transforman la manera en que sus adeptos se relacionan con sus creencias, con el mundo que los rodea y en que experimentan el cristianismo. En este artículo presentamos ejemplos de iglesias postdenominacionales en México y Estados Unidos ante el contexto del distanciamiento social como medida de prevención a la pandemia por covid-19. Por medio de estos ejemplos observamos la innovación en el campo religioso que las iglesias postdenominacionales representan y cómo no sólo poseen recursos de modalidad online sino que en ciertos casos son lo que llamamos iglesias semivirtuales.
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