Popular Religion and Comunidades Eclesiales
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Popular Religion and Comunidades Eclesiales de Base
Popular Religion is the practice of religious expressions of faith and spirituality, private or public without institutional control.
An expression of faith that informs, shapes, and influences everyday lives.
Understanding of the Devine is developed and celebrated.
Comunidades Eclesiales de Base are popular religious groups mainly made up of poor people that come together through their faith.
They discuss and reflect on their faith, their lives, and their vision of what the future holds for them.
Popular Religion
A religious expression in an attempt to provide an immediate remedy for the struggle of daily life.
Ideas about life and death. Salvation and condemnation.
Cultivating the culture
Grandmothers and mothers are responsible to pass down customs and beliefs.
Women assumed roles of educators, mediators, faith healers, rezadoras and comadrona; dispensers of physical and spiritual well-being...