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Contemporary Maya Spirituality: The Ancient Ways Are Not Lost
Contemporary Maya Spirituality: The Ancient Ways Are Not Lost
Contemporary Maya Spirituality: The Ancient Ways Are Not Lost
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An authoritative study of the indigenous religion still practiced in Guatemala based on extensive original research and participant observation.
 
Jean Molesky-Poz draws on in-depth dialogues with Maya Ajq’ijab’ (keepers of the ritual calendar), her own participant observation, and inter-disciplinary resources to offer a comprehensive, innovative, and well-grounded understanding of contemporary Maya spirituality and its theological underpinnings. She reveals significant continuities between contemporary and ancient Maya worldviews and spiritual practices.
 
Molesky-Poz opens with a discussion of how the public emergence of Maya spirituality is situated within the religious political history of the Guatemalan highlands, particularly the pan-Maya movement. She investigates Maya cosmovision and its foundational principles, as expressed by Ajq’ijab’. At the heart of this work, Ajq’ijab’ interpret their obligation, lives, and spiritual work.
 
Molesky-Poz then explores aspects of Maya spirituality, including sacred geography, sacred time, and ritual practice. She confirms contemporary Maya spirituality as a faith tradition with elaborate historical roots that has significance for individual, collective, and historical lives, reaffirming its own public space and legal right to be practiced.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 23, 2009
ISBN9780292795815
Contemporary Maya Spirituality: The Ancient Ways Are Not Lost

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