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- Title
¿Guerra espiritual evangélica o brujería indígena? Prácticas mágico-religiosas de los excombatientes paramilitares en contextos de guerra en Córdoba (Colombia).
- Authors
Garzón, Liz Carolina Lozano
- Abstract
Former paramilitary combatants of the department of Córdoba (Colombia) have a mix of beliefs in their magic-religious arsenal that include the use of the "niños en cruz" of the Zenu (Sinu) tribe to protect themselves from bullets in a fight, as well as the practice of evangelical exorcisms para counteract the effects of that same witchcraft, among others. These ambiguous behaviors are due to the fact that the Cordoban tradition inherited a map of religious beliefs that were the product of colonial syncretization where the indigenous, at the same time that it is located at the base of the social pyramid, incarnates and serves the actions of the devil, to which the evangelical appears as a counter power. Analyzing the existing tensions between the use of indigenous magic and the evangelical "spiritual war" between former paramilitary combatants of Córdoba is the object of this article.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; VETERANS; SYNCRETISM (Religion); ANTHROPOLOGY of religion; PARAMILITARY forces; MAGIC -- Social aspects; COLOMBIAN history, 1974-
- Publication
Universitas Humanística, 2009, Issue 68, p69
- ISSN
0120-4807
- Publication type
Article