Stigmatisation and ritual : an analysis of the stigmatisation of pentecostalism in Chile
Muñoz, Wilson (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Sociologia)
Fernández Mostaza, Esther (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Sociologia)

Date:	2018
Abstract:	Pentecostalism has been one of the most successful religious movements in Chile due to both its historical growth and its ascendancy in different spheres of society. Nevertheless, from its origins to the present day, it has also been the most stigmatised religious movement in the country. Studies have explained this phenomenon by referring to variables of social class or religious rivalry. However, they have forgotten a factor that is key to this problem and to Pentecostalism: its ritual dimension. The aim of this article is to analyse the relationship between the stigmatisation of the movement and its unusual ritual life. It is concluded from the analysis of documentary sources that the principal contexts in which Pentecostalism is stigmatised are those that feature the staging of ritual, and that the stigmatisation mainly attacks and disparages the most distinctive ritual practices of the movement.
Note:	Funding: This research was funded by the UNESCO/Japan Young Researchers' Fellowship Programme, UNESCO-France and the Government of Japan. The first author was supported by the CONICYT in the form of a Becas Chile scholarship, N° 72150364.
Note:	Altres ajuts: CONICYT/72150364
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Published in:	Religions, Vol. 9 Núm. 8 (16 2018) , p. 246, ISSN 2077-1444

DOI: 10.3390/rel9080246

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