Abstract

MURILLO BARRIGA, Guillermina  and  MONTES VEGA, Octavio Augusto. Social reproduction of a sacred place: Nueva Jerusalén, Turicato, Michoacán. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2022, vol.43, n.172, pp.74-93.  Epub Aug 11, 2023. ISSN 2448-7554.  https://doi.org/10.24901/rehs.v43i172.961.

This article seeks to analyze a series of mechanisms of social reproduction that led to the construction of territory in popular response to historical and ideological reforms, resulting from the Second Vatican Council (1962 y 1965), and that continue to this day. In 1973, Nueva Jerusalén (New Jerusalem) was physically erected, a mystical space built from a Marian apparition to a peasant woman, who, at the request of the Virgin of the Rosary, sought to be heard about the warnings of the end of time. Through the collection of official and ethnographic data, it is shown that this population had a significant growth that persists and coexists together with a series of regional and national transformations of political, cultural, and religious nature. This text is the result of extensive ethnographic research, which includes intensive fieldwork in ​​the area of study. Based on our results, we can say that Nueva Jerusalén is a sacred and utopian space that, through different types of mechanisms of social reproduction, has been able to persist and look to the future. The case is interesting and distinguishes itself from others because the community seems open to mobility and the future.

Keywords : Popular culture; messianism; Catholic religion; Tierra Caliente in Michoacán; utopia.

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