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Author Knab, T. J.

Title Mad Jesus : the final testament of a Huichol messiah from northwest Mexico / Timothy J. Knab
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 279 pages) : map
Contents pt. I. Mad Jesus: Santo Cristo. True Jesus -- Color against the sky -- Huicholand -- A proposition -- La Plaza de la Veracruz -- Jesus: Santo Cristo -- Aftermath -- Little Jesus of the Peyotes -- The magical way to Peyoteland -- Intimations of the "Evil One" -- Fathers and forefathers -- To Teakata: the center of the world -- At the earth's axis -- The journey to madness -- Return from darkness -- Vengeance -- Drunken dervish -- Crazy Kieli -- Enchanted music and madness -- A chalice of blood -- Song of evil -- pt. II. The Gospel of mad Jesus. The other world -- Into the world -- The coast -- A teacher -- The mothers' land -- Salve María -- The cult of Santo Cristo -- The apostles -- A brother's tale -- Guadalajara madness -- English Enrique -- Dark city lights -- pt. III. Resurrecting Jesus. The death of Jesus -- File of the dead -- Tracing the path of Jesus -- White rocks -- San Isidro -- Guadalajara -- Holy, holy madness
Summary "This narrative of frightening encounters with a charismatic deviant is a dramatic account of anthropological fieldwork. It culminates in the quest to discover what really happened when Jesus was killed in a police shootout some thirty years after Knab's last disturbing confrontation with him
The book not only provides an overview of the Huichol and the plight of Mesoamerican Indians but also sheds light on traditional religion, indigenous Catholicism, messianic cults, urbanization, and indigenous conflicts with the modern Mexican state."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-276) and index
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Subject Mad Jesus.
SUBJECT Mad Jesus fast
Subject Huichol Indians -- Biography
Shamans -- Mexico -- Jalisco -- Biography
Huichol Indians -- Religion.
Shamanism -- Mexico -- Jalisco
Nativistic movements -- Mexico -- Jalisco
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
RELIGION -- Ethnic & Tribal.
Huichol Indians
Huichol Indians -- Religion
Nativistic movements
Shamanism
Shamans
Mexico -- Jalisco
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780826332066
0826332064
1283635240
9781283635240
6613947695
9786613947697
0826337414
9780826337412