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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Autor: Bargo, María
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Ciencias Sociales y Religión (Online)
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8669769
Acesso em linha:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/csr/article/view/8669769
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Opus Dei
Pobreza
Trabalho
Santidade
Trabajo
Santidad
Poverty
Work
Sanctity
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Resumo: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.