Espiritus? No. Pero la Maldad Existe
Supernaturalism, Religious Change, and the Problem of Evil in Puerto Rican Folk Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11056183 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Jeffrey Jacobson (Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 434-467 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/eth.2003.31.3.434 |
| OpenAlex | W2126965170 |
| Language | ES |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 22 |
A life‐history‐based, ethnographic study of first‐ and second‐generation Puerto Rican migrants to Cleveland, Ohio, examined religious and ethnopsychological conceptions of altered states of consciousness and the supernatural. This article describes the unexpectedly rich and complex lexicon of evil and malevolence (la maldad) that emerged in many of the study's 60 interviews. It is suggested that individuals undergoing religious change acquire and use an increasingly radicalized Christian notion of evil to describe, condemn, and replace traditional conceptions of the supernatural (including witchcraft). However, while the social effect may be to stigmatize and eradicate what are perceived as "superstitious''conceptions of the supernatural, variety of liter alistic narratives of encounters with supernatural evil suggest that key psychocultural dispositions may be retained
Art · Christianity · Consciousness · Epistemology · Ethnography · Ethnology · Good and evil · Literature · Narrative · Puerto rican · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |