Devotions, promises and miracles: How religious beliefs and practices support poor people´s agency in Latin America

IF 0.3 0 RELIGION Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI:10.1080/14755610.2022.2089186
Ana Lourdes Suárez, Juan Martín López Fidanza
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ABSTRACT The article addresses Latin American poor people's religious beliefs and practices, analysing particularly three of them: devotion, promise, and miracle. We argue that these three religious features are related to people’s agency and can have impact on personal and community wellbeing. The data that support the analysis come from a case study in Buenos Aires based on two sources: 1. A questionnaire applied to a representative sample of Buenos Aires slum inhabitants. 2. In-depth interviews of women living in poor settlements. The theoretical discussions link the concept of popular religiosity as it is being addressed in Latin America, with approaches that emphasises agency. The main argument is that the bodily, emotonal, and relational aspects of religion, framed within a cosmological and holistic cultural matrix, shape poor people’s agency with positive outcomes.
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祈祷、承诺和奇迹:宗教信仰和习俗如何支持拉丁美洲穷人的机构
摘要本文论述了拉丁美洲穷人的宗教信仰和实践,特别分析了其中的三种:虔诚、承诺和奇迹。我们认为,这三个宗教特征与人们的能动性有关,并可能对个人和社区福祉产生影响。支持该分析的数据来自布宜诺斯艾利斯的一项案例研究,该研究基于两个来源:1。一份问卷适用于布宜诺斯艾利斯贫民窟居民的代表性样本。2.对生活在贫穷住区的妇女进行深入访谈。理论讨论将拉丁美洲正在讨论的流行宗教的概念与强调代理的方法联系起来。主要论点是,宗教的身体、情感和关系方面,在宇宙学和整体文化矩阵的框架内,以积极的结果塑造了穷人的能动性。
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