The poverty according to Opus Dei, Opus Dei understood through poverty
As Escrivá de Balaguer –Opus Dei founder- proposed, everyone can reach sanctity through work and daily activities. In Argentina, many people answer to this call by doing social work. By a multi-situated ethnography I try to understand the conceptions and actions that its members offer in regard to p...
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| Format: | article other other other |
| Language: | spa |
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2018
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.20396/csr.v20i28.12462 |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Oai: | oai:inpec.econtents.bc.unicamp.br:article/12462 |
| Summary: | As Escrivá de Balaguer –Opus Dei founder- proposed, everyone can reach sanctity through work and daily activities. In Argentina, many people answer to this call by doing social work. By a multi-situated ethnography I try to understand the conceptions and actions that its members offer in regard to poverty. There can be distinguish two different ways of doing this: one focuses on those involve in the activities (found-raising events for socializing or those that try to “educate” youth) and another that attends to the receptors (spaces for “integration” and “moral recovery” of the poor). Also, I consider “poverty” besides its material side, as the idea of “spiritual poverty” is key to understand Opus Dei and its place inside Catholicism. |
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