Abstract

AGUILAR ROS, Alejandra. The theology of innocence: corporeality, trance and indetermination in the fidencismo cult. Alteridades [online]. 2020, vol.30, n.60, pp.91-103.  Epub Mar 26, 2021. ISSN 2448-850X.  https://doi.org/10.24275/uam/izt/dcsh/alt/2020v30n60/aguilar.

This work will focus on the corporeality of the Mexican fidencista cult, through the analysis of the body religious techniques of the materias, the religious leaders that canalize Niño Fidencio, among other spirits. The phenomenological analysis of trance and ludic ritual performances and the highlighting of some central cultural themes that are key to the understanding of fidencismo propitiate a fluid and indeterminate corporeality that, in turn, respond to and are a historical byproduct of the context that is Northeast Mexico.

Keywords : phenomenology of the body; body techniques; ritual gender; ritual performance; Niño Fidencio; spiritism; spirit canalization; Mexican northeast.

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