Escolà i Parra, Berta
(2023)
From Incarnated Faith to Jesus’ Lifestyle.
Master thesis, Master Religion Conflict and Globalisation.
Abstract
This thesis has aimed to answer: How did the JOC militants adopt the Catholic cultural categories throughout its history? Based on the idea that cultural change is the result of its reproduction this thesis has described how in the hands of the agents of its time and influenced by the context around them, the JOC militants adopted the Valors Cristians from the Catholic Culture and has modified them throughout the course of its history. Moreover, the analysis has considered that the introduction of these Catholic cultural categories has transformed the militants' understanding of the world and mobilization.
In the first analysis I have explained the particular environment that National Catholicism created provided the perfect creative environment that encouraged the adoption of some Catholic cultural categories by some segments of the working classes. This is how the JOCs culture was born. Embodying the working class takes on the Valors Christians: presenting structural problems such as hunger, homelessness, and poverty, and more importantly collective solidarity as a matter of faith in the form of Incarnated Faith.
Moreover, I have explained that the adoption of these Catholic Categories introduced the JOC’s cultural new categories with more moral conkers. Unlike its predecessors, the JOC emphasis resided on the immorality of injustice in the workers' lives, rather than its origin. This translated into an action that, although political, came from a moral justification, which gave it a spiritual transcendency never seen before.
In the second analysis I have speculated that factors such as the professional context of new capitalism has led to a new reading of the categories. The emphasis of the JOC now resides in more individual and even psychological activities that emphasized community and networking. This new version of the Valors Cristians have become extremely useful to justify a new form of movement that attempts to take care of the needs of a society that on the one hand lives in a rapidly changing economic environment and on the other no longer has the traditional religious networks.
This study has contributed to the understanding of cultural change, showing how factors such as political context, economic circumstances can shape the way people understand the same cultural categories. Moreover, it introduces the idea that particular religious cultural categories have the potential to be re-interpreted in numerous ways without necessarily depending on a matter of faith. This is particularly interesting in the present landscape. Which brings me to the last point.
| Type: |
Thesis
(Master)
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| Supervisors (RUG): |
| Supervisor | E-mail | Tutor organization | Tutor email |
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| Berger, P. | | Faculteit GGW, Vergelijkende Religiewetenschap | P.Berger@rug.nl | | Knibbe, K.E. | | Faculteit GGW, Vergelijkende Religiewetenschap | K.E.Knibbe@rug.nl |
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| Degree programme: |
Master Religion Conflict and Globalisation |
| Academic year: |
2022-2023 |
| Date of delivery: |
30 Nov 2023 13:21 |
| Last modified: |
30 Nov 2023 13:21 |
| URI: |
https://rcs.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/752 |
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