Espiritualidad y territorio: la emergencia de nuevos mercados religiosos en Pisco Elqui (IV Región, Chile)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyse the emergence of new religious markets in the locality of Pisco Elqui, IV region of Chile. Using a qualitative methodology with an ethnographic approach, it seeks to understand the goods and services commercialization and the spiritual, mystic, esoteric character process as well as a multiplicity of therapies, spiritual trips and the transmission of ancestral knowledge. Hence the results reveal the transformation of said place in a new space for the commercialism of the sacred; its religious, magic, spiritual and esoteric expressions represent the confluence of local elements and global attractions for the new types of contemporary believers.

Keywords

• Chile
• territory (Thesaurus); spirituality
• sacralise
• religious market (Author)