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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE Confronting Interreligious Violence -- ONE. SHARING THE BURDEN OF FIESTAS ACROSS BORDERS -- TWO. DRINKING AND THE DIVINE IN CHIAPAS AND TZINTZUNTZAN -- THREE. ACCOUNTING FOR MISSIONARIES AND MONEY -- FOUR. RESPONDING TO THE MINORITY: CATHOLIC SELF-IMPROVEMENT -- FIVE. RESPONDING TO THE MAJORITY: DOCTRINAL DISOBEDIENCE -- SIX. CONSIDERING THE CONSEQUENCES OF CONVERSION -- CONCLUSION Mobilizing Religion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Making work a commission -- Helping others help themselves -- Thinking anew about the history of direct sales -- Healing the body through the mind -- Selling without selling -- Motivating rituals -- Planning the departure -- Bringing transformation to South America -- Moving forward, looking back

Since 1990, direct sales have attracted over two million recruits in Mexico and are characterized by a belief in the power of positive thinking. Through an ethnographic portrait, Peter S. Cahn demonstrates that the quasi-religious commission of self-empowerment--more than any economic commission-- accounts for the explosive growth of commission-based sales in the developing world. This book offers an in-depth exploration of the intersection of the spiritual and the economic, to reveal the ways in which people of faith blur the line between sacred and secular.