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With the investigations of Jean-Martin Charcot on hysteria, phenomena whose interpretation until those years had been marked by the authority of religion were reread from the scientific authority3. This time science won, which since then has ruled as the authorized discourse to talk about the health (physical, psychic, mental) of people and populations. Las dos instituciones que estructuran a las sociedades occidentales, el mercado y el Estado, funcionan «como si Dios no existiera». Esto no quiere decir que las personas dejen de creer, ni que las instituciones religiosas desaparezcan o que se resignen a eclipsarse detrás de los discursos científicos en temas que consideran de su potestad.
The religious engage in discussions on ecology and Belgium Phone Number List food. The 2020 pandemic was a privileged setting to record these interactions. The very rapid expansion of covid-19 affected the entire planet: at this time, what can move, moves. It is the global circulation of everything: airplanes, viruses, policies, speeches, conspiracy theories, vaccines. The flows of different speed and intensity draw an unequal world in goods, population and resources. And, in this context, churches and religious groups also circulated discourses and meanings in the pandemic, a scene that, on the other hand, lent itself to spiritual interventions: along with disease and death, the epidemic brought fear, uncertainty, isolation, loneliness.
Religion has experience in offering answers in these scenarios. Religions react: the trained muscle of dialogue with the State The 2020 pandemic surprised Argentina with a government that had taken office just three months before the arrival of covid-19. The change of political sign brought new airs and a general rethinking of public policies, but some things remained: the relationship between religious groups and the State is one of them. Like so many processes in the difficult 2020, the pandemic intensified existing situations, conflicts or agreements rather than generating new ones.
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發表於 2023-5-4 01:35:48
