Etnopolíticas del evangelismo gitano y esfera pública. Transversalidad, poder, etnicidad

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ID4447009
AuthorsManuela Cantón (0000-0002-8967-4049, Universidad de Sevilla, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume50
Issue3
Publication date2013-12-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolítica y Sociedad (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1130-8001 • E-ISSN: 1988-3129
PublisherUniversidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5209/rev_poso.2013.v50.n3.40757
OpenAlexW2012652598
LanguageES
Citations received5
References cited3

The economy of Gipsy identity is sustained at present by the most active and influential sectors of the evangelical churches, acting through their social arm: FACCA (Federation of Anda-lusian Cultural Christian Associations). Religious ideas and ritual spaces have become as well a matter of ethnopolitics. Our obsession with religion has made it into a problem difficult to handle; in fact, many thinkers these days are supporting the idea that within the public sphere we should use exclu-sively the language of secular reasoning, because religious language only works outside our secular world and its use introduces premises which are acceptable only for the believers. The case we analyze here shows that (1) contemporary ethnogenesis processes like this one, in witch we can find political actors from the religious leadership, are processes linked to public policies; (2) public administrations must dialogue with these new political subjects, religious leaders and evangelical ministers, if they want these public policies to reach gypsy population; (3) secularised governments should be able to give reasonable answers to all forms of diversity in modern society, including the plurality of religious conceptions within the public sphere. In our case, these religious plurality interfaces with political recognition, ethnic minorities cultural rights and their access to public resources. As Taylor has noted, secularism (and laicism) is not about the confrontation between State and Religion, but about the response of the democratic state to all forms of diversity

Democracy · Ethnic group · Ethnogenesis · Political science · Politics · Population · Public sphere · Schism · Secularism · Secularity · Sociology · State (computer science · Witch · Immigration and Intercultural Education · Law · Religious Education and Schools · Romani and Gypsy Studies

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