Eric Hoenes del Pinal

University of North Carolina at Charlotte | UNC Charlotte · Department of Religious Studies

Ethnographic research involves coming to know a society’s culture and religion in several different ways both quantitative and qualitative. Interviewing, field recordings, systematic observation and the researcher’s own (inter-)subjective experiences are some of the most common methods of ethnographic data collection, but integrating these multiple...

Religious studies is an interdisciplinary field encompassing a range of research methods and theoretical areas of analysis. Interest in ethnographic methodology has grown of late as scholars of religion with varying specialties and backgrounds have turned towards anthropology for inspiration on how best to analyze and interpret people’s variegated...

This book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape, and analyse the social, cultural, and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization. Case studies examine Catholic practices in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Sou...

This book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape, and analyse the social, cultural, and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization. Case studies examine Catholic practices in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Sou...

As Nicholas Harkness notes, “The human throat is a narrow, muscular passageway with three critical functions: breathing, swallowing, and vocalizing” (167), making it a critical organ for human survival as well as an evocative metaphor for the dialectics of religion as something that is at once outwardly practiced and inwardly experienced. Two new w...

As global climate change is becoming an increasing worry, Q’eqchi’-Maya Catholics in Guatemala have begun drawing Pope Francis encyclical Laudato Si’ into their discourse about the environment. This article examines how Catholic teachings and Maya culture come together to shape Q’eqchi’-Mayas’ views on climate change, and argues that these processe...

Coupling Catholic doctrine with ‘ecstatic’ forms of worship more often associated with Pentecostal/Charismatic forms of Protestantism, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement (CCRM) has seen rapid global expansion over the past four decades, but in doing so it has been institutionally, theologically, and socially problematic for traditionally mor...

A collection of classic and contemporary ethnographic explorations of Catholicism, by anthropologists and religious studies scholars. The book approaches Catholicism through a variety topics and across a wide range of geographical settings. Includes material whose theme is ‘religion’, as well as contributions that expand on Catholicism’s intersecti...

Although Q’eqchi’-Maya Mainstream Catholics and Charismatic Catholics in the Guatemala highlands share many of the same physical and social spaces, the relationship between them is a tense one due to their differing modes of ritual practice. Although this conflict rarely comes to a head directly, on one particular occasion a highly ranked member of...

One of the most far-reaching reforms undertaken by the Catholic Church as part of the Second Vatican Council was the adoption of vernacular languages in the liturgy. The transition from Latin to vernaculars was not unproblematic, however, as it raised several practical and theoretical questions regarding the relationship between local churches and...

The second half of the 20th century saw monumental changes in both the political landscape of Latin America and the global institution of the Catholic Church. Maya and Catholic Cultures in Crisis is an ambitious book that seeks to document how the encounter between local Maya communities and the pastoral agents of the Catholic Church contributed to...

While much attention has been paid to how linguistic practices and language ideologies shape local forms of Christianity, relatively little attention has been paid to the role that non-verbal communicative codes and people's ideas about them play in these same processes. This paper analyzes the gestural and bodily practices of Q'eqchi'-Maya Catholi...

As the careful reader may intuit from looking at the title situated above, this special section of Anthropological Quarterly is entitled "Beyond Logos: Extensions of the Language Ideology Paradigm in the Study of Global Christianity(-ies)." This title is inelegant enough that it perhaps warrants an explanation. Why entitle it "Beyond Logos"? What i...

This volume contributes to the study of language ideology by focusing on the historical processes through which ideological positions about the relationship of language and society are produced and reproduced. Specifically, the contributors seek to contextualize the ways that language ideologies are contested in particular, often well publicized de...