| Acknowledgements | 11 |
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| Preface | 15 |
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| Part I | 25 |
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| Religious Pluralism and Ethnicity in Guatemala: An Introduction | 27 |
| The Religious Players | 30 |
| Part I: Catholicism | 31 |
| Part II: The Maya Movement | 32 |
| Part III: Enthusiastic Christianity: Protestant and Catholic Pentecostalism | 34 |
| Ethnicity and Pentecostal Christianity | 35 |
| The Guatemalan Social Structure: Ethnicity and Ethnic Identities in Guatemala | 40 |
| Theoretical and Methodological Considerations | 43 |
| Existing Theories | 43 |
| Globalization Theories | 48 |
| Religion as a Supermarket? Rational-Choice and Microeconomic Theories | 49 |
| Methodology and Methods of this Study | 52 |
| Book Structure and Overview | 58 |
| Part II | 61 |
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| Catholicism, Religious Pluralism, and the Ethnic Divide | 63 |
| Introduction to Catholicism and Ethnicity | 63 |
| The Catholic Bureaucracy: Structure and Features of Guatemalan Catholicism | 70 |
| Catholicism in Guatemala: Looking Back at the History of Religious Pluralism and the Ethnic Divide (1524–1944) | 76 |
| The Conquest and Colonialism (1524–1824) | 76 |
| The Post-Independence Period: The Fall of Catholicism and the Rise of Protestantism | 81 |
| Mayan Catholicism: The Cofradías | 83 |
| The Decline of the Cofradías | 89 |
| Revival of the Cofradías? | 92 |
| The Formation of an Indigenous Activism and the Role of Catholic Networks and Ideologies: From the 1950s to the 1970s | 94 |
| Catholicism and the Political Environment of the 1950s and 1960s | 94 |
| Catholicism, Catholic Action and the Mayas | 96 |
| Cultural and Educational Initiatives | 102 |
| Political Initiatives | 105 |
| Agricultural Initiatives: Cooperatives, Ligas Campesinas, and the Comité de Unidad Campesina (CUC) | 106 |
| Catholicism, Indigenous Activism, and the Insurgency: 1978 Onward | 109 |
| Ideological Factors and Mayan Exclusion | 113 |
| Catholic Networks and the Armed Confrontation | 122 |
| The Catholic Church in the mid-1980s and 1990s | 126 |
| The Popular Front, the Human Rights Agenda of the Catholic Church, and the Emergence of the Maya Movement | 127 |
| The Catholic Church and the Ethnic Agenda | 133 |
| Theory and Practice | 133 |
| The Popol Vuh: Myth and Revitalization of the Indigenous Culture within the Catholic Church | 136 |
| Mayan Culture and Spirituality and the Training of Catechists Today | 138 |
| The Pastoral Indígena | 142 |
| The Pastoral Indígena in San Marcos | 145 |
| The Maya Movement and the Pastoral Indígena | 146 |
| Diversification of Catholicism: The Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Guatemala | 149 |
| The Historic Roots of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal | 150 |
| The Guatemalan Catholic Charismatic Renewal | 152 |
| The Contemporary Presence of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Guatemala | 155 |
| The Catholic Charismatic Renewal and Religious Pluralism | 156 |
| The Catholic Charismatic Renewal and Mayan Culture | 158 |
| Theological Profile and Religious Empowerment | 162 |
| Healing, Exorcism, and Popular Religion | 165 |
| The Guatemalan Church Hierarchy and the Catholic Charismatic Renewal | 168 |
| The Charismatic Renewal in Concepción Tutuapa | 175 |
| History and Religious Characteristics of the Municipality and the Parish | 175 |
| The Situation in the Parish Today | 178 |
| From Rejection to Acceptance: The Relationship between the Parish, Charismatic Catholics, Catechists, and the Diocese | 180 |
| Summary | 186 |
| Part III | 197 |
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| The Guatemalan Maya
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