The Spheres of Human Action

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The Spheres of Human Action

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Furthermore, religion constructs meanings about health assuming the limits that modernity, with the triumph of biomedical discourse, has imposed on it. The covid-19 pandemic, with even more intensity than previous sars epidemics(2002-2003) and avian and swine flu (2009-2010), caused health crises and revived the old ghost of the plague: the ideal breeding ground for the triumphant return of apocalyptic and millenarian discourses, which have activated the imagery religious throughout history. And, indeed, the fear returned.

The causes of disease and death were attributed to the powerful of special data planet, and the epidemic, to the evil and intentional actions of those who really dominate the world: dark powers, secret societies, hyperdeveloped technologies. Hidden enemies who manipulate human life and fetal tissues in laboratories to create lethal biological weapons. Intrinsically evil beings that also associate with governments to restrict freedoms and obtain profit from it. But these speeches, widely disseminated in videos and messages on social networks, do not come from organized religions nor are they disseminated by their authorities. Although they take the form of utopias, apocalypses and prophecies, classic styles of religious saying, the conspiracy theories expressed in messages and videos have diverse and decentralized origins.

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Conspiracy theories circulate fast and far in times of confinement and social media. And they move in the interstices of the institutions, and despite their attempts to control them. But if the churches do not appear as producers of these discourses and have rather adopted the function of supporting the States, what is the sphere in which these representations gain ground? The margins of institutions (political parties, schools, families and also churches, among others), those vast spaces, far from the institutional gaze, which recreate labile, fragmented and even ephemeral connections between people, are places that they feed varied representations.
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