The power of images in the latin american baroque ethos
The present article aims to highlight the importance of the study of saints, a tradition very present in Latin American devotional culture. Although different Latin American authors have highlighted its relevance linked to the enchantment of social life; due to the influence of sociology coming from...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) |
| Repositorio: | Ciencias Sociales y Religión (Online) |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8671177 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/csr/article/view/8671177 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Santos Barroco Latinoamérica Religiosidad popular América Latina Religiosidade popular Saints Baroque Latin America Popular religiosity |
| Resumo: | The present article aims to highlight the importance of the study of saints, a tradition very present in Latin American devotional culture. Although different Latin American authors have highlighted its relevance linked to the enchantment of social life; due to the influence of sociology coming from Europe, the study of disenchantment and secularization was privileged, and devotion to saints was little attended as a theoretical foundation. From different angles of study of the saints, we intend to value their study as historical support of the baroque ethos as material support of colonial imposition, cultural resistance and religious creativity up to the present. The sections highlight what people do, feel and live in an intimate communication with the saints, and the way in which these figures are actors with multiple agencies such as their sensitive materiality, their aesthetic plasticity, their territorial capacity, their autonomy with respect to the institutional, their transgressive, decolonizing and fractal competences. In short, the aim is to recognize through the saints the "other logic" of Latin American religiosity (described by Cristian Parker), which is different from the logic of Western secularization typical of the North Atlantic countries and which is currently in force to enchant the social world. |
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