RELIGIOUS SOCIAL IMAGINARIES: INTRAWORLDNESS AND OTHERWORLDNESS IN THE URBAN POPULAR RELIGIOUS CULTURE IN CHILE

Authors

  • Manuel Antonio Baeza R.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61303/07172257.v8i9.71

Keywords:

religiosidad popular, cultura, imaginario social

Abstract

Starting from multiple beliefs and practices, the notion of popular religiosity hides a broad spectrum of the religious imaginary in Latin America. That same notion has centered, for a long time, a great deal of the available research on the relationship between an official religion and a non-official one. In the same vein, the implicit centrality accorded to the concept of Church has tended towards reducing broader-based cultural phenomena into a simple opposition between what is required and what is prohibited by the Catholic Church. This paper postulates a change of vision from the traditional “popular religiosity” toward a new conceptualization of popular religious culture. Based on a research experience carried out in a popular urban medium (Valparaiso, 1993), two sense-matrices were identified with respect to the religious: the intramundane and the extramundane. Several types of religious imaginaries are constructed around these two matrices and their influences on social and political action are analized.

Author Biography

  • Manuel Antonio Baeza R.

    Sociólogo
    U. de Concepción

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Published

1999-12-31

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How to Cite

Baeza R., M. A. (1999). RELIGIOUS SOCIAL IMAGINARIES: INTRAWORLDNESS AND OTHERWORLDNESS IN THE URBAN POPULAR RELIGIOUS CULTURE IN CHILE. Revista De Ciencias Sociales, 8(9), 17. https://doi.org/10.61303/07172257.v8i9.71

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