Saints and Virgins: Religious Pluralism in the City of Tijuana

A double referent connoting both movement and immobility, the border region has been, for more than a century, the setting for those who come to stay, those who try to cross over into the United States, and, more recently, those who are deported from the US. Accordingly, the religious practices in t...

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VerfasserInnen: Hernández Hernández, Alberto (VerfasserIn) ; Campos Delgado, Amalia Esmeralda (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Berghahn [2015]
In: Religion and society
Jahr: 2015, Band: 6, Heft: 1, Seiten: 142-154
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Tijuana / Religionsausübung / Vielfalt
weitere Schlagwörter:B eligious diversity
B Tijuana
B border region
B Migration
B Popular Religiosity
B Catholicism
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Zusammenfassung:A double referent connoting both movement and immobility, the border region has been, for more than a century, the setting for those who come to stay, those who try to cross over into the United States, and, more recently, those who are deported from the US. Accordingly, the religious practices in this area flow along with the shifting populations and are transformed by them. From a socio-anthropological perspective, this article examines the main religious figures venerated in the city of Tijuana, located just south of the US-Mexico border, and the social contexts of their devotees, who have come from other parts of Mexico. This religious panorama does not display a homogeneous group of creeds, but rather reflects a variety of regional traditions in which religion is practiced and divine figures are revered.
ISSN:2150-9301
Enthält:Enthalten in: Religion and society
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2015.060110