The contribution of the Puebla Mixtecs to the consolidation of the American Catholic Church: migration of the Rosario micaltepec from 1980 to 2015

Abstract

The objective of this article is to show, from an ethnographic reference point located between the Mixteca poblana, a region in the center of Mexico, and the county of Brooklyn, New York, the transnational religious practices that show the importance of the Hispanic communities in the growth and consolidation of the American Catholic Church. It is only possible to account for the transnational life that occurs between societies of origin and destination, through cultural practices such as those of religion. In this sense, I resort to a multilocal ethnography at the methodological level, which breaks with the classic paradigm of focusing research on a single community. Through a practice like the first communion I seek to account for the transnational fabric that develops in it.