Creencias y valores religiosos en los criterios de auto-gobierno de jóvenes políticos en México

Abstract

En este artículo se presenta evidencia empírica sobre los valores y creencias religiosas de un grupo de treinta y dos jóvenes dirigentes políticos, afiliados a partidos de derecha, centro e izquierda en México. El propósito del artículo no es ofrecer un estudio meramente descriptivo de perfiles religiosos individuales sino un primer análisis micro-meso que sugiere la posibilidad de encontrar vínculos entre las creencias y valores religiosos de un grupo de políticos jóvenes en un contexto latinoamericano y lógicas de gobierno pastoralistas de acuerdo a la tesis foucaultiana de la gubernamentalidad moderna.

Religions and Political Elites in Latin America: Analysing Youth Political Elites through Religious Technologies of Government in Mexico

“…The last sub-section describes the transformed persistence of the colonial-era technology of charity in the political-governmental rationality of young members of political elites in 21 st -century Mexico. These descriptions are based on directly- (Zavala-Pelayo 2015, 2016a, 2016b, 2017 and indirectly-related ( Zavala-Pelayo 2018) research findings that have been discussed in depth elsewhere.…”

“…In order to trace the trajectory of the colonial-era technologies touched upon above, an empirical study of members of an apparently secularised population group -members of 'youth political elites' (Cruz 1990;Kovacheva, Nanov, Kabaivanov 2017) − was carried out in Mexico from 2014 to 2016 (Zavala-Pelayo 2015, 2017. These research subjects were selected through a positional sampling method (Hoffmann-Lange 2018) aimed at interviewing the incumbent heads of political parties' youth wings in Mexico.…”

“…For more detailed accounts of the respondents' religious beliefs and religious-political criteria seeZavala-Pelayo 2015, 2017 …”