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Pentecostalismo de frontera y pentecostalismo de centro. Procesos de fronterización simbólica en el pentecostalismo altiplánico chileno-boliviano 1973-2007

2020; Linguagem: Inglês

10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2020-0015

0718-1043

Miguel Ángel Mansilla, Sandra Leiva Gómez, Carlos Piñones Rivera,

Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America

The article proposes a reading of the border as a social and cultural construction through the concept of symbolic frontierization. It analyzes the representations and symbolic practices that Pentecostalism constructs on the border, showing the processes that take place between center and border Pentecostalism and specifying what we call an "altiplanization of Pentecostalism". The methodology consists of the systematic review of the "Fuego de Pentecostés" magazine between 1973 and 2007, seeking to analyze such processes in the Chile-Bolivia border. It concludes by synthesizing the main features of this symbolic frontierization and emphasizing the need to deepen the studies on these processes from the methodologies based on the observation of the contemporary contexts.