Modernidad y transmodernidad: religión evangélica entre andinos y mesoamericanos en Lima, Perú y la Ciudad de México

Abstract

In this paper, the most popular model to comprehend religious phenomena like Protestantism in Latin American academia is Weberian, which constitutes a starting point to question and complex this way to study the phenomenon. There is no doubt of this kind of contribution, but these conceptual and epistemological categories are eurocentric because in their origin are searching to understand religious phenomena of European expression. In the Latin American context, this model is not enough to understand field data, because value judgments are mixed with Weberian analysis. Based on the data field, obtained between 2009 and 2017, in the indigenous evangelical population in Mexico City and Lima, it also highlights the comprehension of evangelical religion as people following transmodern logics, because there are transversal systems guidance of the world understood as magical, religious and scientific. As a result, indigenous urban people not only is a part of the tradition faced to urban modernity but also are configured like modern people who want to acquire some of their benefits —promised or real ones— without ignoring a rationalist discourse of order that is not absolutized at all levels of social life. Thus, classical concepts like the duality tradition-modernity are analyzed and contrasted with de-colonial explanations, encompassing orders of subjugation and resistance, submission and liberation, transcending typical explanations where evangelical is only a way to dominate and eliminate the indigenous.