Living in (Dis)continuity: Reconfiguration of Religious Subjectivities in an Ikojts Community of Oaxaca

Abstract

In the Ikojts community of San Dionisio del Mar, Oaxaca, religious subjectivities live in the midst of apparently divergent traditions and reconfigure themselves around (dis)continuities. Both Catholics and Protestants use the topoi of modernity and tradition depending on contingent circumstances that demand confrontation or negotiation. In this article I explore the multiple ways in which the Ikojts craft their religious identities through an ongoing play of meaningful inconsistencies. I show that the analysis of religious conversions should not polarize around break or continuity but include the possibility of (dis)continuity.