Spiritual Capital: On the Materiality and Immateriality of Blessings in Puerto Rican Brujería
2011; Emerald Publishing Limited; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1108/s0190-1281(2011)0000031009
ISSN0190-1281
Autores Tópico(s)Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
ResumoThis essay situates the significance of “spiritual capital” within Puerto Rican brujería (witch-healing) in relation to re-enchantment theories of modernity. It argues that the merging of spiritual and economic values has engendered a form of “spiritualized materialism” that has turned sheer economic prosperity into spiritually wrought rewards. Within this moral economy, matter does not simply function as a conduit for the sacred; it actually constitutes the very idea of the sacred. In comparison to recent work on corporate attempts to fuse religious ethics with business, this essay is noteworthy in that it unravels the logic and effect of such fusions at the vernacular religious level.
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