Abstract

MANSILLA, Miguel Ángel; PINONES RIVERA, Carlos  and  LEIVA GOMEZ, Sandra. Pentecostalism as a religion of migrants: The linguistic and symbolic resources of the agronautic conception to face crises and social discriminations. Soc. relig. [online]. 2018, vol.28, n.50, pp.199-225. ISSN 1853-7081.

The objective of this article is to analyze the reciprocal contributions that Chilean Pentecostalism made to the rural and urban migrants and that these made to the Pentecostal culture. Our theoretical approach led us to emphasize the agronautic discourse of Pentecostalism, understood as a set of rural and maritime linguistic codes to interpret and offer a symbolic solution to the crises of traditional society. In this way the Pentecostal culture settled the pilgrimage as a principle of life and the rural-urban migrant converts filled the pilgrimage with dramatic, tragic and pessimistic feelings, conceiving life as precarious, arbitrary and hostile. This allowed the converts to resist and resignify the discriminations. We postulate that, in this way, Pentecostalism was erected in Chile as the religion of the migrants and the despised.

Keywords : Pentecostalism; Migrants; Indigenous People; Farmers; Traditional Society.

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