Resumen

IRIARTE BUSTOS, Pablo  y  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.

Palabras clave : modernity; Adventism; worldliness; displacement, qualitative research.