La heterogénea construcción del sufrimiento en el Gran Buenos Aires

Semán, Pablo

doi:10.1590/s0104-71831998000200003

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“…Religiosity in the subaltern sphere, in contrast, would be characterized by the prioritizing of a "simultaneous membership" of different Christian or Afro-Brazilian denominations and the habitually observed "syncretic" religious practices among them. A similar version of this process rooted in a relational and holistic configuration of the person in Argentinian subaltern sectors is analyzed by Semán (1998Semán ( , 2001, who describes a configuration shaped by the exceptional processes of modernization which are features of the differential cultural and institutional experiences in Argentina, starting from the hypothesis that the popular-subaltern sectors in this country, at least in the expansive urban centers like Buenos Aires, have historically been more permeated by a dualist ideology of the individual.…”

Section: Body/soul and The Religiosity Of Subaltern Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Body/Soul

Viotti¹

2015

Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions

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The categories of body and soul as inheritors of modern Cartesian dualism, but above all of Christian cosmology, are a crucial point of departure for the analysis of religiosity in Latin America. A strong presence in religious and secular traditions, where modern canonical dualism is a relative empirical fact, gives an account of effective processes of secularization and modernization in the region in which a relative specificity for the soul and another for the body are recognized. However, the articulation between body and soul in so-called "popular" subaltern religiosity and in the new spiritualities poses a challenge for the canonical versions, accounting for exceptional processes of religious modernization that show new and old modes of negotiation between the body and soul.

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Section: Body/soul and The Religiosity Of Subaltern Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%