Indigenizace globálního spirituálního diskursu: o jednom setkání západní a mayské spirituality

• Authors: Jan Kapusta

Title variants

EN

The indigenization of global spiritual discourse: an encounter between Western and Maya spirituality

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This study situates the phenomenon of intercultural religious encounters in a globalization perspective. It presents them as a struggle of indigenous groups to carve out their own cultural space in the global scheme, as an effort to indigenize modernity and spirituality. By means of a discursive analysis of a particular Maya lecture held in the Czech Republic, the author traces the gradual formation and constitution of a global spiritual discourse that arises through the following factors: the continuous connecting, merging or gluing together of diverse religious elements; the universalization of rhetoric and the emphasizing of native roots; and the likening and delimiting of the self to the dominant Euro-American culture. The aim is to show that this is a deeply ambiguous process that entails both continuity and discontinuity, convergence and divergence, but also – and perhaps most importantly - equivocation; that it is a dynamic process of translation in which much is lost, but in which something is also found.

Keywords

EN

indigenization of modernity; Maya spirituality; Western alternative spirituality; globalization; equivocation; discursive analysis

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 110
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 303-321
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jan Kapusta

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic