Religions’ strategic (in)visibilities in the city of Madrid
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25-03-2022
Carolina Esteso
Borja Martín-Andino
Abstract
Along with the decline of religious practice and the religious privatization, an effect of secularization has been the assimilation between the urban and the secular, as both the Weberian sociology of religion and materialist approaches to history and urban economics have been pointing out. However, while decades ago the city was the privileged arena of Church and State separation, today it is the main location of religious pluralism and postsecularist activism. In this new context, religious actors appear in the urban public space in search of a strategic visibility that improves their integration in the social life of the city, gives continuity or increases their community of faithful, or even facilitates collective salvation. What does each of them do in the public space? What visibility strategies do they follow? While it is assumed that religious events in the public space bring into play the visibility of confessional actors, social conventions about the religious, as well as the stereotypes about each of the religious affiliations, make every group behave differently in the management of their visibility according to the legibility/dissimilarity of their religiosity.
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Esteso, C., & Martín-Andino, B. (2022). Religions’ strategic (in)visibilities in the city of Madrid. Papeles De Identidad, 2022(1), papel 260. https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.22939
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visibility, urban space, secularism, religious readability
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Goffman, E. (1974). Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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Honneth, A. (2004). Visibilité et invisibilité. Sur l’épistémologie de la « reconnaissance ». Revue du MAUSS, 23(1), 137-151.
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Martínez-Ariño, J., y Griera, M. (2020). Adapter la religion : négocier les limites de la religion minoritaire dans les espaces urbains. Social Compass, 67(2), 221-237.
Molendijk, A. (2015). In Pursuit of the Postsecular. International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 76(2), 100-115.
Monroy, J.A. (2003). Obras completas. Tomo XI. Madrid: CLIE.
Moreno, M. (2001). El miedo a la libertad religiosa. Autoridades franquistas, católicos y protestantes ante la Ley de 28 de junio de 1967. Anales de Historia Contemporánea, 17, 351-363.
Pfadenhauer, M. (2010). The eventization of faith as a marketing strategy: World Youth Day as an innovative response of the Catholic Church to pluralization. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 15, 382-394.
Pinxten, R., y Dikomitis, L. (Eds.) (2013). When God comes to town: Religious traditions in urban contexts. Vol. 4. Nueva York: Berghahn Books.
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Tilly, Ch. (2004). Social Movements, 1768-2004. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.
Vaggione, J.M. (2005). Reactive Politization and Religious Dissidence: The Political Mutations of the Religious. Social Theory and Practice, 31(2), 233-255.
Vargas, M. D. (1999). Los Testigos Cristianos de Jehová y otras confesiones: una etnografía del pluralismo religioso en Alicante. Alicante: Instituto de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert.
Voirol, O. (2005). Les luttes pour la visibilité. Esquisse d’une problématique. Reseaux, 1(129-130), 89-121.
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