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Between ‘traditional’ and ‘new’ Catholic church religious discourses in urban, Western Mexico
Author(s) -
NAPOLITANO VALENTINA
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-9856.1998.tb00128.x
Subject(s) - neighbourhood (mathematics) , empowerment , sociology , identity (music) , relation (database) , gender studies , homogeneous , aesthetics , political science , law , art , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , database , computer science , thermodynamics
— This paper analyses processes of belonging, identity formation and construction of knowledge within and between ‘new’ and ‘traditional’ Catholic groups in a low‐income neighbourhood of Guadalajara. It argues that these two expressions of the Church carry through distinctive ‘progressive’ and ‘conservative’ messages in matter of engagement with, and empowerment in social reality, notions of personal responsibility, relation to non‐human agents and embodiment of experience. However, those groups are not internally homogeneous and to a certain extent the ‘new’ Church–the CEBs–is similar to the ‘traditional’ Church in terms of subtle hierarchical control of production, transmission and withholding of knowledge.