Práctica religiosa e identidad social entre los pueblos de Tlalpan, México, D.F.

María Ana Portal Ariosa ^[1]
1. [1] Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
  
  Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
  
  México
Localización: Alteridades, ISSN-e 2448-850X, ISSN 0188-7017, Vol. 4, Nº. 7, 1994 (Ejemplar dedicado a: La cultura de la pobreza: O. Lewis), págs. 37-44
Idioma: español
Títulos paralelos:
- Religious practice and social identity amongst people from Tlalpan, México, D.F.
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Resumen
- In this article, we shall attempt to analyse the popular religious phenomenon within the regional perspective of the Tlalpan area. The basic references are the contacts which are established by patronal parties amongst the people inside such areas as well as at other external communities. The central hypothesis is that urbanity is built from the integration of complex forms in relationship to what is known as rural, incorporating a variety of practices, where popular religion plays a fundamental role. Thus, the recreation of urban identities are favored even in those fields which were, until not long ago, rural spaces. The former concept comes to reality only if people from Tlalpan and from adjacent communities (whether they belong to the state of Mexico or to Morelos) keep and recreate a system of duties that we have called “urban” through which religious rituals of the communities are organized, and the collective “memory” is reproduced as well as a specific way to face the world, and a special type of social organization is established