Abstract

FRANCO, Francisco. Cuerpo y "misticismo" en las Misas de Sanación del Movimiento de Renovación Carismática Católico en Mérida (Venezuela). LiminaR [online]. 2010, vol.8, n.2, pp.71-88. ISSN 2007-8900.

The movement of Charismatic Catholic Renovation has been constituted in an important contemporary possibility religious in Venezuela, competing with other religions. Of being a marginal group within the Catholic Church its influence has grown, although with a certain support of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. By all the country, the charismatic priests celebrate their Healing Mass with unpublished a massive presence of faithfuls in previous years. In this article, we will show some of the results of the ethnographic work carried out during the 2006 in catholic Churches of the city of Merida (Venezuela), where Healing Mass are carried out directed by charismatic priests. We will show how in the experiences and the performance of the charismatic renovation, shaped in those Healing Mass, the body is the computer of this revitalisation, is the center of its rituals which mainly has contributed to that this movement competes of successful way with the pentecostals groups and the Cult to Maria Lionza and the traditional form of the catholicism, of there its enormous growth in the last years. We raise that this ritual has renewed and "subverted" the traditional catholic homily, emphasizing the different ritual momentsfrom the event, showing the importance of the sensuality, the body and the senses in this religious ceremony. The body is marked, in him itgambles and it demonstrates the "truth" and the efficiency of the charismatic ritual. Nevertheless, we indicated that this movement of renovation, register in a mystical Christian tradition, a way towards the search of God through body and of ecstatics experiences that go from the martyrdom, the ascetic and the mystical writing but becomes a species of daily mysticism here or light.

Keywords : charismatic movement; charisma; pentecostals; healing mass; mysticism; body; Venezuela.

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