Globalizacion creencias sanaciones y milagros

  Globalization, beliefs, healing and miracles

Luis A. Cárdenas

Professional Council of Sociology, Buenos Aires

Abstract

Globalization and new consumption patterns influence daily life, the postmodern human being lives an existencial angst, the awareness of living here and now, in a violent and hostile world, the struggle for survival after the basic needs. Given this, options or alternatives present themselves as a way of life. Sociological changes of globalization include religions, we can mention the phenomenon of transnational and transcontinental networks.

In Argentina, particularly Buenos Aires as the case observed, is considered a religious metropoli where different offers coexist: the Catholic healing circuit including San Cayetano, San Pantaleon and the Virgin “Desatanudos”; St. Expedite, charismatic healers, electronic ministers, rabbis, Islamic, Hindus, Buddhists, schools of spirituality, new age, indigenous healers, “manosantas” (healing hands), holistic therapies, tarot, parapsychology, etc.

The mapping of religious groups in the city of Buenos Aires highlights some areas such as Almagro, in the geographic center of the city, and Liniers on the western edge with the Church of San Cayetano and the burgeoning Bolivian community.This paper addresses the case study of the neighborhoods mentioned and the opinions of experts on the subject of sociology.

 Key Words globalization beliefs healing miracles