Abstract

IRIARTE BUSTOS, Pablo  and  GONZALEZ BARRA, Jonathan. Worldliness and Displacement: The Adventist View of Modernity (Valdivia, Chile). Soc. relig. [online]. 2021, vol.31, n.58, pp.127-127. ISSN 0326-9795.

This article explores the relationship between modernity and religion through the discourses of members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in southern Chile. The research is located in Valdivia, a city characterized by religious plurality, and seeks to know the definitions and characteristics that the believers themselves attribute to the phenomenon of modernity. From a qualitative approach that incorporates the analysis of the life cycle of believers, discourses are collected that show a tensioned vision of modernity. The notions of worldliness and displacement, proposed by the interviewees themselves, allow us to reflect on their life experiences. Believers develop a valuation of modernity that does not remain static, but becomes complex by virtue of the changes they experience throughout their lives. A posture of indocility is manifested in the face of a world that is conceived as dangerous for life in faith but which also offers possibilities of partial integration. It is, in short, a nexus between personal transformations, group norms and external pressures whose analysis contributes to ground and enrich the old, though never finished, problematization of the relationship between modernity and religion.

Keywords : modernity; Adventism; worldliness; displacement, qualitative research.