Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea (Mar 2020)
Combates políticos y culturales por la significación de la religiosidad popular durante la II República
Abstract
Throughout the contemporaneity popular religiosity has been a space of conflict and powerful tool in the construction of cultural legitimacies and imaginaries. This work is a theoretical approach to the concept of “popular” and of the multiple meanings of its rites, applied to a period of special political effervescence: the democratic experience of the Second Republic. In this context, Holy Week, for its potential in the visibility of elites and in the construction of identities was a combat ground among different ways of understanding popular culture, tradition and the sacred. We have focused on the noteworthy case of the anti-Republican boycott in Seville, which was emulated in other Andalusian cities and which exemplifies the political uses of festive and identity phenomena.