Entre tradition et guérison : Différenciation religieuse et nouvelles formes de sociabilité en contexte nahua.

In the Nahua villages of the region of the High Mountains (in the centre of the state of Veracruz), a form of customary Catholicism and a scheme of social organisation which integrated the civic and the religious in a single symbolic universe predominated until the 1980s. If one could then already observe the presence of certain evangelical churches in some districts, the phenomenon of religious differentiation became increasingly visible in the 1990s in a context of crisis in relation to land, increasing social asymmetry and an intensification of transnational migrant fluxes. Based on a case study, this article illustrates the expansion of evangelical organisations, in particular Pentecostal ones, within the context of a redefinition of interethnic dynamics. The aim is to analyse the capacity of these organisations to provide new paths to autonomy and dissidence in the face of traditional cultural and political structures, and to show how they took part in the production of new forms of socialisation that promoted access to exogenous networks and a redefinition of one's relation to the ethnic space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]