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.

Keywords

• iconoclasm
• ii republic
• legitimacy
• popular religiosity
• rites.
• iconoclasia
• ii república
• legitimidad
• religiosidad popular
• ritos.