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Título del libro: The Oxford Handbook Of The Sociology Of Latin America
Título del capítulo: Four keys to understanding religious experience in Latin America

Autores UNAM:
HUGO JOSE SUAREZ SUAREZ;
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Año de publicación:
2020
Palabras clave:

Latin america; Para-ecclesiastical agents; Popular religion; Religious beliefs; Religious practices; Syncretism


Resumen:

This chapter conceptualizes the basic elements of the Latin American religious experience. It argues that the most important religious expressions are ?para-ecclesiastical agents, " sociological figures who administer religious life and the contents of belief, which result from a confrontation between distinctive cosmovisions and must be discussed in terms of-among other concepts-syncretism, mestizaje, and hybridization; the fiesta, seen as a space for creativity and, at the same time, as a logic of religious practice that reproduces rituals; and, finally, practitioners? relationship to religious images and related elements that represent the sacred. © Oxford University Press 2021.


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