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Folk religion in Argentina comprises a range of religious practices, beliefs and expressions that have emerged within the popular classes of the country and outside the formal doctrines and organised structures of institutionalised religions.[1] The most widespread form of popular religiosity in Argentina is folk Catholicism, given that Catholicism has historically been the dominant religion in Argentina.[2]
There is also the case of traditional Catholic saints whose cult has been magnified to somewhat heretical dimensions, like Saint Expeditus, Saint Cajetan, Saint George, Saint Benedict and Mary, Untier of Knots.[3]
By region[edit]
Folk Catholicism[edit]
Marian devotions[edit]
Devotion to the Virgin Mary was the preferred method of Spanish colonizers to evangelize the indigenous peoples, since the latter unified her image with that of the Pachamama, the local Earth Mother goddess.[4] In addition, Marian cults arose in places that were already the object of pre-Columbian worship, obscuring their original uses.[5] A paradigmatic example of this is the Virgin of Copacabana (also known as the Virgin of Punta Corral), a devotion that originated in the Bolivian city of the same name and spread throughout the Altiplano and northern Argentina.[4] The Copacabana devotion has its origin in an earlier local cult around a huaca, a small sacred stone, which eventually became an image of the Virgin Mary in later versions of the legend.[6] The Virgin of Copacabana began to become popular as an object of worship and pilgrimage after a statue of her was placed on the altar of the local church in 1583.[7]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Ameigeiras 2008, pp. 7–12.
- ^ Ameigeiras 2008, p. 31.
- ^ Ruiz Díaz & Redondo 2023, p. 9.
- ^ a b Dussel 2016, pp. 107–108.
- ^ Dussel 2016, p. 108.
- ^ Dussel 2016, p. 109.
- ^ Caballero Espinoza, Angela María (2010). La virgen de Copacabana: Construccion de identidades de genero en torno al imaginario de una mujer madre en los Andes (Master's thesis) (in Spanish). La Paz: Facultad de Humanidades. Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
Bibliography[edit]
- Ameigeiras, Aldo Rubén (2008). Religiosidad popular. Creencias religiosas populares en la sociedad argentina (PDF). Colección "25 años, 25 libros" (in Spanish). Los Polvorines; Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento; Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno. ISBN 978-987-630-045-2. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
- Coluccio, Félix (2007) [1986]. Cultos y canonizaciones populares de Argentina. Biblioteca de Cultura Popular (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Sol. ISBN 978-950-9413-10-8. Retrieved 19 February 2024 – via Google Books.
- Dussel, Enrique (2016). El catolicismo popular en la Argentina (PDF). Obras Selectas 7 (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Docencia. ISBN 978-987-506-415-7. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
- Mallimaci, Fortunato, ed. (2013). Atlas de las creencias y actitudes religiosas en la Argentina (PDF) (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Biblos. ISBN 978-987-691-008-8. Retrieved 14 March 2024 – via CLACSO.
- Ruiz Díaz, Emiliano; Redondo, María, eds. (2023). Devociones populares argentinas (PDF) (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno. ISBN 978-987-728-167-5. Retrieved 19 February 2024.