Bibliographic citations
Sánchez, J., (2018). Cultura y conversión pentecostal: individuo, cuerpo y emociones en la dinámica religiosa de sectores populares de Lima. El caso del Centro Misionero Ríos de Agua Viva de San Juan de Lurigancho [Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/13007
Sánchez, J., Cultura y conversión pentecostal: individuo, cuerpo y emociones en la dinámica religiosa de sectores populares de Lima. El caso del Centro Misionero Ríos de Agua Viva de San Juan de Lurigancho []. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/13007
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title = "Cultura y conversión pentecostal: individuo, cuerpo y emociones en la dinámica religiosa de sectores populares de Lima. El caso del Centro Misionero Ríos de Agua Viva de San Juan de Lurigancho",
author = "Sánchez Paredes, José Manuel",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2018"
}
The fundamental question of the thesis is the causes of the persistence, rootedness and diffusion of Pentecostalism in many popular urban sectors of Peru, especially among the poorest. There are new answers to this old question centered on the role that the body and emotions have in the centrality that Pentecostalism gives to the individual in this religious system. Ritual practices, beliefs, discourses, forms of integration, participation and other elements of the Pentecostal system act on the symbolic mechanisms of individuation to redefine the perceptions, conceptions and relations of the Pentecostals with respect to their own bodies. It is argued that as a result of a process of "transformation”, rather than "conversion", the Pentecostal consciously and unconsciously makes the body a fundamental center of its new religious identity and identity, legitimizing it through baptism in the spirit and its production of charismatic gifts that sacralizes its corporeality, and sustaining it through the rigorous and nourished system of ethical norms for the care and control of the conduct, body and person in daily life. The efficacy of the Pentecostal ethic lies in its strong emotional and moral dimension, while the fear of returning to the old social and religious condition of origin, give to the care of the body, "spiritual temple", a central role in personal and social life. This is a functional condition to sectors that find in Pentecostal change a way of promotion and social "improvement”. The thesis shows that, in fact Pentecostalism's opposition to peruvian catholicism and popular culture is relative, since both religious cultures share symbols and emotions on which they construct their imaginaries. Beliefs such as the devil, ghosts, specters, among others, are extremely important in the construction of Pentecostal culture and are also part of the link between Pentecostalism and popular Catholicism. Such beliefs have a social and political meaning that reflect the social worlds in opposition and dispute. It is concluded that the success of Pentecostalism in the sectors that assume it lies in its capacity of symbolic articulation of two social worlds in tension, through the Pentecostal culture that focuses on the individual and gives centrality to the body in the process of religious change. The research describes and analyzes the process of emergence, development and transformation of a Pentecostal church in the popular district of San Juan de Lurigancho where this complex individual transformation of the Pentecostals is observed. Other districts and popular areas have also been considered for comparison purposes. The method used has been the ethnographic with participant observation and its approach is fundamentally qualitative, centered on narratives and life histories, in-depth interviews, questionnaires and surveys
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