RELIGIOUS IDENTITY POLITICS IN GUATEMALA AND NICARAGUA: A RESEARCH REPORT
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61303/07184727.v11i2.788Keywords:
HabitusAnalysis, Bourdieu, religious praxis, Central America, space of religious styles.Abstract
The present article is based upon a research report of a project on religion, society, and politics in the two countries of Guatemala and Nicaragua. There are two aspects of the article we consider of interest for the readers. First, the project described is an example for social scientific inquiry of religious movements by means of HabitusAnalysis, a theory and method developed on the basis of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of praxis. In this sense, the article shows how to proceed in a praxeological study of religious actors and what the outcomes of such an approach can be. Second, in the chapter of “results” important findings are sketched so that there is a surplus as well in terms of empirical knowledge.
Downloads
References
Schäfer, H. W.; Reu, T. & Tovar Simoncic, A. (2013). “Cambios en el campo religioso de Guatemala y Nicaragua: 1985 a 2013.” In Sendas. Instituto de Investigaciones del Hecho Religioso 1 (1). pp. 11–32.
Schäfer, H. W. (2015). HabitusAnalysis1. Epistemology and Language. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-94037-3
Schäfer, H. W., Hagen L. & Tovar, A. (2018). HabitusAnalysis3. Models and Methods. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (in preparation).
Schäfer, H. W., Hagen, L., Tovar, A. & Köhrsen, J. (2016). “Towards a praxeology of religious life.” In Frans Wijsen and Kocku von Stuckrad (ed.): Making Religion. Theory and Practice in the Discursive Study of Religion, Leiden: Brill. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004309180_009
Schäfer, H. W. (2015). Mission inverted: Inter-American religious flows and how to capture them. “In Maryemma Graham/Wilfried Raussert (ed.): Entangled and Mobile Americas. Farnham: Ashgate.
Schäfer, H.W. (2015). Art.: “Protestantismus in Lateinamerika, 19. und 20. Jahrhundert.” In: Hermann Hiery (ed.): Lexikon zur Überseegeschichte. Stuttgart: Steiner. pp. 664-666.
Schäfer, H. W., Reu, T. & Tovar A. (2012). “Macht und Ohnmacht des Heiligen Geistes.” In Forschung (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) (3). pp. 20-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/fors.201290024
Schäfer, H. W., Reu, T. &Tovar, A. (2013). “Power, Powerlessness and the Holy Spirit.” In German Research (German Research Foundation) (1). pp. 12-15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/germ.201390009
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2017 Heinrich W. Schäfer, Tobias Reu, Adrian Tovar
![Creative Commons License](http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository, website or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.