Los newagers: el efecto colibrí. Artífices de menús especializados, tejedores de circuitos en la red, y polinizadores de culturas híbridas

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Relig. soc.

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2014-12

RESUMO

This article analyses the social, economic, cultural and religious changes that have mIn this article the Author offered a description of the spiritual seeking of a nodal agent within alternative spiritual network commonly known as New Age to address the impact of their career in the hybridization of a spirituality neoindia. Three processes are proposed to be considered for a methodology of studying newagers impact on cultural hybridization: 1) Theirs condition as designer of self religions made with scraps of different religious traditions, as Champion and Hervieu-Lèger (1990) points; 2) Their agency as “nodal agent” to knit joints, alliances and network connections between other nodal agents among various circuits and other social fields; and 3) their competence “pollinator” (metaphor bringed by Soares 2009) of cultures and religions. The central argument of this paper is that spiritual seekers in their walk not only collect fragments of different cultural traditions to build custom menus beliefs, but are also transmitters of meanings contributing to hybridize the cultures through which they pass. Many of which coincide with ethnic communities valued for their connection with nature, his ancestry and his exotic viewed by Western eyes.

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