Bulletin #8 (Re)thinking Religion in Latin America

CLACSO Working Group on Religions and Society: Tensions, Diversities, and Mobilizations in Debate
Bulletin (Re)thinking the religious in Latin America
Year 3 – Number #8 Messianisms and millenarianisms: their presence in culture, religion and politics
February 2025

CONTENT

1. Presentation
   Nayeli Olivia Amezcua Constance
2. Messianism and eschatological expectation as an anthropological expression of homo religiosus
   Martín Bobadilla Caballero
3. Eschaton, messianism, apocalypse and utopia in the prophetic Judeo-Christian genesis of the socialist experience
   Molay Maza Ontiveros
4. Religion, millenarianism and crisis cult in the rebellion of New Galicia in 1540
   Israel Jurado Zapata
5. The messianic and millenarian vision in the religious system of Jehovah's Witnesses
   Samanta García García
6. El Niño Fidencio, messianism and modernity, Mexican style
   Carlos G. Peña Hernández
7. The construction of sacredness in the devotion to the messianic figure of Saint Jude Thaddeus in Latin America
   Rolando Macías Rodríguez
8. Messianism in comics as secularized mythologies of postmodernity
   Nayeli Olivia Amezcua Constance