Dissertation Research: An Analysis of Peasant Recruitment to a Mexican Millenarian Sect

该奖项将允许一名人类学研究生研究墨西哥农民被招募到墨西哥千年天主教社区的情况。将研究招募来自不同社会经济和种族背景的农民的情况，试图解释他们对这一群体的不同吸引力。使用人种学的方法，包括生活史访谈、个人关系网研究和宗教经历，没有加入千禧年群体的类似农民的控制组将与加入者进行比较。这项研究很重要，因为宗教教派是世界上许多国家生活中的一个重要事实。了解有助于加入或抵制这些团体的条件，有助于理解另类宗教团体是如何生存的。

This award will permit an anthropology graduate student to study the circumstances surrounding the recruitment of Mexican peasants to a Mexican millenarian Catholic community. The circumstances surrounding recruitment of peasants from different socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds will be studied to try to explain variations in their attraction to the group. Using ethnographic methods of life history interviews, studies of personal networks and religious experiences, a control group of similar peasants who did not join the millenarian group will be compared to the joiners. This research is important because religious sects are a vital fact of life in many countries of the world. Understanding the conditions which facilitate joining, or resisting, these groups helps understand how alternative religious groups survive.