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The purpose of this study is to reflect on the usefulness of categories such as “Pentecostalism,” “Charismatics,” and “Neo-Pentecostalism,” in order to study religious change in Mexico. To achieve this, we analyze both the trajectory and the impact of two evangelical movements in the religious field of Tijuana, specifically during their formative years. For this, one needs to ask to what extent it is possible to assume that Neo-Pentecostalism constitutes a wave of Pentecostalism that can be explained based on liturgy and doctrinal criteria so extensive as the theology of prosperity and the gifts of the spirit. Based on the preceding, the category of “Neo-Pentecostalism” is problematized and proposed to be used exclusively for churches which arose from the Charismatic movement within Pentecostal denominations.

This paper presents a classification of the different types of violence to which doctors are exposed during training and professional practice. Actors alien to the medical field exert external violence, whereas practitioners, paramedical personnel and patients exert internal violence. The later can be hegemonic (when produced by authorities and doctors in power positions) or contra-hegemonic (if it defies such power structures). The hypothesis is that doctors maintain a relation of sociological ambivalence regarding the different types of violence to which they are exposed during their professional practice. This allows them to be very critical against external violence, and, at the same time, to normalize internal violence and take it as part of the profession. This ambivalence is illustrated with a series of empirical examples.

This text deals with one of the strategies that unfold in the reproduction of masculinity as hegemony, specifically, the rejection of the feminine and its projection as emasculation. The information has been collected directly from the profiles on the app Grindr, which facilitates social contact between men, in three different cities: two of them with Spanish as their main language (Mexico City and Madrid) and one with English (London). The comparison of the information provided in these profiles allow us to explore how the phenomenon of rejection of femininity among men —in this case mostly gay and bisexual men— must be understood as a cross-sectional element in patriarchal societies.

Reseña: Gallo, G., & Semán, P. (2016). Gestionar, Mezclar, Habitar. Claves en los emprendimientos musicales contemporaneos. Buenos Aires: Gorla.

In sociology individualism has been generally understood as a strictly modern phenomenon inseparable from the notion of institutional individualism. This is a conception which fails to recognize the presence of individuals in other societies and periods or which, by comparing them with this model, concludes in its insufficiencies. This paper, after developing a terminological characterization of some key notions (individual, individuation, individualization and individuality) and a critical review of the main assumptions of institutional individualism, proposes the existence of three other great modalities of individualism: communitarian individualism, onto-relational individualism and agentic individualism. Each of these modalities is characterized by a particular articulation between a conception of the actor and different forms of legitimacy of individuality.

Starting from the diverse uses and assigned functions of the portable altars that are analyzed in private correspondences between philo-Jesuit agents and requests to the Directorate of the State of Buenos Aires, this article investigates a number of strategies and exchanges deployed by those agents after the expulsion of the Society of Jesus to promote the devotion to the order and to maintain the practices of evangelization in territories and remote regions like the Araucania and the Patagonia at the beginnings of the nineteenth century. This article weaves together questions from history, art history and the anthropology of images to respond to the ways in which portable altars were effective means for the evangelization in apostolic missions whose main characteristic was the autonomy of its missionaries

This article describes and analyzes the characteristics that the independence process had in the district of Tarapacá, at the southern end of the viceroyalty of Perú, between the occupation of the town of San Lorenzo by Julián Peñaranda in 1815 and the uprising led by Pascual Flores in the mineral of Huantajaya in 1822. Being that both events manifested the intent of patriots to spread the revolution in this remote region, the article investigates, using administrative records, church documentation, reports and memoirs, the impact that the war had such as on the stances local residents took. This paper argues that the struggles for independence took place when the inhabitants of Tarapacá were in difficult economic circumstances as a result of the end of the silver cycle, that determined to an important degree the levels of adhesion or rejection as much to the realist as to the rebels’ cause.

This article studies the living conditions of free workers in Cartagena de Indias from the mid eighteenth century to the beginnings of the nineteenth century. It relates the demand for workers from defense systems, salaries, problems with city provisions, the cost of living and some representations of the people and of authorities surrounding speculation and scarcity, as well as the effects of the 1808 Crisis of the Spanish Empire on workers. Four ideas are articulated in this paper: 1) During the second half of the eighteenth century workers from the city defense system improved their living conditions because of both the demand for work and the increase in wages. 2) These achievements were affected due to the increased costs of basic goods which were a product of a combination of adverse weather affecting crops, the widespread inflation in the viceroyalty of New Granada, and the interests of merchants and speculators in taking advantage of supply shortages with the aim of increasing profits. 3) The definitive blow to those improvements was the political crisis of 1808 and onward, that paralyzed the flow of the national income and brought job losses. These difficulties became even larger during the first decades of the republic. 4) The sum of these situations created favorable conditions for the development of social dissent, that in the context of the crisis of the Spanish Empire that began in 1808, found channels of expression through politics.

In 1849 the first university architecture course in Chile was founded at the University of Chile. Although local historiography has established that the orientation of the course was, at its roots, Beaux-Arts style this term had certainly not been defined in detail. This article analyzes an agonistic episode that emerged from this foundation, in which two discourses that attributed to architecture disparate social, material and ideological values confronted each other. The question that it attempted to answer would revolve around the role and the importance of architecture in Chilean society. Was it associated with its capacity to drive universal values of beauty and culture, or rather its capacity to satisfy the material necessities of a country under construction?

One topic that has always been addressed by historiography, regarding the commercial competition between the main ports of Perú and Chile, is the situation regarding Chilean wheat that was highly demanded in the Peruvian market. Notwithstanding, this enmity or competition has been studied little, taking into account businesses and the concrete interests of those who are the true protagonists of this story: traders and storekeepers. Focusing on them, the present article attempts to contribute to the knowledge about this competition in the South American Pacific. It makes visible not only an economic issue but also, one related to politics and groups of influence. The article particularly attempts to figure out the backstory behind the rivalry through established merchants in Chile, basing this investigation on an accusation of monopoly made to the viceroy of Perú in 1804.*