ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the meanings of an embodied indigenous spirituality with a particular focus on how it is experienced and expressed in documents and oral discourses by politically organized indigenous women primarily in Mexico. Incarnate spiritual practices characterize Mesoamerican peoples. Mesoamerican spirituality sustains resistance and rebellion within their political practices. These practices are corporeal; they manifest interweaving ways of thinking and of experiencing gender, politics, and sacred space. Further, the presence of these practices as part of ongoing justice struggles reveals formative ways of relating to the sacred. Some of the categories analyzed here show how indigenous spirituality is set in a Mesoamerican philosophical background that embraces the fluidity of opposites, plurality in unity, and a cosmic vision that links all beings on earth. The concepts of duality, equilibrium, and embodiment help with comprehending the apparent multiplicity and diversity of religious beliefs, ceremonial practices, and collective rituals that enhance both their indigenous religious interactions and their political commitments.
