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https://doi.org/10.5007/%25xAbstract
This article explains the symbolic world that organizes the experiences of health and illness, suffering and death, among the pentecostal convertsin Guatemala. First, the paper discusses the evangelicals' symbolic treatment of illness and cure. Second, it analyses the discourses of the upper classes neopentecostalism that, playing symbolically with the concepts of illness and possession related to «nation», accuse the Maya population of being responsible for the «historic damnation)) of the republic.
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