Religión, identidad y movilización en contexto de crisis Herramientas para comprender la praxis religiosa

Religious praxis is becoming increasingly relevant as a response to the multiple crises afflicting the American continent. In part, it has characteristics of resistance, and in part, it even legitimizes the causes of the crises. Therefore, it is equally important to have tools to understand religious praxis in the midst of social processes and structures. This book presents a sociological approach to religion based on the praxeology of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, critically expanding his methodology and applying it to the empirical study of religious practice. The epistemological thread is a relational concept of society that rests on the correspondence between the practical sense of the actors and the objective structures, thus seeking to dissolve the dualism of the object-subject scheme. Instead of this scheme, the use of models that allow the reconstruction of religious identities and strategies based on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of data in the context of the relationship between social forces and power is proposed. The methodological apparatus that operationalizes this approach was developed in the 1980s, with a special focus on its suitability for sociological research on religious praxis, mainly in the context of civil wars and post-conflict societies (both in Central America and the Balkans), and seeking its continuous refinement in other research contexts to date.

Adrián Tovar Simoncic

Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer

Leif-Hagen Seibert