RT Article
T1 Devociones, promesas, y milagros: aproximación a dimensiones de la espiritualidad en sectores populares = Devotions, promises, and miracles : approach to dimensions of spirituality in popular sectors
JF Ciencias sociales y religión
VO 18
IS 24
SP 54
OP 70
A1 Suárez, Ana Lourdes
LA Spanish
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1784585556
AB The aim of this article is to asses some of the expressions of faith of slums believers that account for a ‘lived religion’. It asses a widely widespread religious practice in marginal settlements: making a ‘promise’ to a religious figure. A practice linked to three other expressions of religious faith also analyzed: 1.To consecrate home through shrines, 2. The devotion of religious figures, and 3.The miracle experience. The data that supports the analysis comes from two sources: 1. A questionnaire applied in 2014 to a representative sample of 400 inhabitants of Buenos Aires slums; 2. In-depth interviews applied in 2011-12 to women living in poor settlements. These interviews enable us to delve into the poor women´s ‘miracles’ storytelling, in their daily expressions of faith, and the meaning of their devotions and promises. These interviews support the phenomenological analysis made of the underlying spirituality fed by such practices. The article discusses a theoretical framework to the spirituality category, by linking it to the cosmological and holistic dimensions present in popular religiosity expressions.
K1 Holistic and cosmological approaches
K1 Miracles
K1 POOR people
K1 Popular Religiosity
K1 Spirituality
DO 10.22456/1982-2650.57841