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Advancing the Grounded Study of Religion and Society in Latin America: Concluding Comments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Richard L. Wood
Richard L. Wood*
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University of New Mexico
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In rediscovering the interpenetration of popular culture and politics in Latin America, and thus the ways these realms mutually constitute one another, scholars have also witnessed the analytic irruption of one particular cultural field: religion. Close attention to grassroots political culture allows us to probe how people's spiritual subjectivity and political subjectivity overlap and cross-fertilize one another. In the process, religion shapes political outcomes in ways often unintended. Two further analytic insights are discussed: First, analysis of lived religion must partially decenter religious institutions from the focus of analysis but also pay attention to how institutions shape spiritual and political subjectivities. Second, our theoretical frameworks—while rightly rejecting dominant Western forms of anti-body dualism—must preserve analytic place for a realm of human experience termed here “embodied dualism” or “experiential dualism.”

Resumen

Resumen

Al redescubrir las formas en que la cultura popular y la política se constituyen mutuamente en América Latina, los académicos también han sido testigo de la irrupción analítica de un ámbito cultural determinado: la religión. Prestar atención a la cultura política de la base nos permite sondear cómo la “subjetividad espiritual” y la “subjetividad política” se cruzan y se inseminan mutuamente. A través de ese proceso, la religión da forma a las dinámicas y los resultados políticos. Otros dos puntos de vista analíticos se discuten: En el análisis de la “religión vivida”, se tiene que decentralizar parcialmente a las instituciones religiosas, y además debe prestar atención a cómo las instituciones dan forma a las subjetividades espirituales y políticos. Cuando nuestros marcos teóricos rechazan con razón el dualismo anti-cuerpo, deben a la vez preservar un espacio analítico para un ámbito humano que se denomina aquí el “dualismo experiencial”.

Type
Part 3: Zones of Crisis
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 49 , Issue S1: Special Issue: Lived Religion and Lived Citizenship in Latin America's Zones of Crisis , 2014 , pp. 185 - 193
Copyright
Copyright © 2014 by the University of Texas Press

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