Abstract

MIGUEL, Gloria. Urban territory and religious places: Towards an analysis of territorial religious inscriptions in the city of Santiago del Estero. Trab. soc. [online]. 2014, n.22, pp.195-203. ISSN 1514-6871.

Both Catholicism and the different Evangelical churches have expanded and entrenched themselves in the Argentine territory according to historical and regionally differentiated logics. A survey of religious landmarks in the city of Santiago del Estero allows us to access contemporary information with respect to how institutions and religious groups, as well as believers, inscribe themselves in the urban territory. It is in this intervention in space that manners qualitatively separated from territorial inscription can be recognized and it is there that attempts to make religious minorities more visible are perceptible - especially when it comes to the heterogeneous set of Evangelical churches. We approach this problem using the proposal of R. Segato -regarding the analysis of religion, territory and the contemporary politics of space- since it offers tools for the analysis that we put forward in this work of the presence of temples and their role as territorial religious inscription in the city. In this respect we consider information obtained in a mapping of religious landmarks in neighborhoods of the city of Santiago del Estero, as well as information offered by the 1st National Survey on Beliefs and Religious Attitudes in Argentina that bring us close to the dynamics of religious participation on the part of the faithful in both Catholic and Evangelical worship in the country.

Keywords : Urban territory; Religion; Territorial inscriptions.

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