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The emergence of a millenarist and messianic movement in the Chorti area of Northern Honduras together with the processes of native ethnogenesis provides an ethnographic framework to analyse and discuss the relationships among the social, religious, political and identity phenomena in the context of globalization in Honduras. The economical, social, educational, public health as well as land claims are worked out from Maya ethnic perspectives, thus acquiring a relevant symbolic value. The tensions, conflicts and contradictions of this native movement have spread to the religious level. In this context, the church of the Nuevo Siglo, of the Nuevo Katum has risen. This paper poses an interpretation of the religious phenomena as engines for change and transformation which is, moreover, much closer to the daily and personal experience of the social agents. The remake carried out by this movement in the economical, social and ideological level go beyond a simple prophetic interpretation of the world by supplying their Chorti followers with practical strategies of effective link with the world and of transformation of the intra and interethnic relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]