More than a tradition, Holy Week is a “total social fact” that transcends the religious sphere (especially the official religion) to become a reference of Andalusian identity. For five decades, Isidoro Moreno, anthropologist and Sevillian, has analyzed with rigor and depth this celebration, dismantling myths, revealing silenced stories and exploring its diverse dimensions and meanings. This book brings together a careful selection of his most influential texts, from his first books on the subject in 1974 and 1982 -in their expanded reeditions of 1999- to current reflections on the growing officialization and commercialization of the festival. With a critical look, different but not distant, Moreno invites us to reject what he defines as an interpretative kidnapping of Holy Week and to understand it, without doctrinaire blinders, in its diverse dimensions and as a field open to all sensibilities in which collective identities are reproduced and tensions are reflected that are those of the very society that organizes and lives it. “Isidoro Moreno's is the other gaze, the one that seeks to go beyond the visible to reveal the symbolic, the social and the human. His approach transcends reductionism and doctrinaire labels, giving voice to those who have lived this celebration as a “total social fact,” capable of combining collective emotion, spirituality and cultural resistance.” Manuel Pimentel
More than a tradition, Holy Week is a “total social fact” that transcends the religious sphere (especially the official religion) to become a reference of Andalusian identity. For five decades, Isidoro Moreno, anthropologist and Sevillian, has analyzed with rigor and depth this celebration, dismantling myths, revealing silenced stories and exploring its diverse dimensions and meanings. This book brings together a careful selection of his most influential texts, from his first books on the subject in 1974 and 1982 -in their expanded reeditions of 1999- to current reflections on the growing officialization and commercialization of the festival. With a critical look, different but not distant, Moreno invites us to reject what he defines as an interpretative kidnapping of Holy Week and to understand it, without doctrinaire blinders, in its diverse dimensions and as a field open to all sensibilities in which collective identities are reproduced and tensions are reflected that are those of the very society that organizes and lives it. “Isidoro Moreno's is the other gaze, the one that seeks to go beyond the visible to reveal the symbolic, the social and the human. His approach transcends reductionism and doctrinaire labels, giving voice to those who have lived this celebration as a “total social fact,” capable of combining collective emotion, spirituality and cultural resistance.” Manuel Pimentel

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Semana Santa de Isidoro Moreno, La
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9788410526976 |
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Publisher: | Editorial Almuzara |
Publication date: | 09/23/2025 |
Pages: | 600 |
Product dimensions: | 6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d) |
Language: | Spanish |