10.6084/m9.figshare.5695726.v1 Wheriston Silva Neris Wheriston Silva Neris Ernesto Seidl Ernesto Seidl Crisis and the rearrangement of religious habitus in the periphery of the Catholic space SciELO journals 2017 Church Catholicism commitment politicization 2017-12-13 02:40:13 Dataset https://scielo.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Crisis_and_the_rearrangement_of_religious_habitus_in_the_periphery_of_the_Catholic_space/5695726 <p></p><p>Abstract Based on a precise empirical selection, the article discusses the idea of institutional crisis as an evidence of broader processes that have affected the Church and Catholicism in different scales from the mid-20th century on. The analysis focused on the Brazilian northern State of Maranhão, and three main aspects were explored: i) the changes in the social composition of the clergy and in its modalities of commitment; ii) the rise of religious demands connected to institutional investments towards new publics; iii) the backflow of power and the rearrangements of the religious authority. The results have brought to light a process of contentious institutional reconfiguration favored by . doctrinal reorientation led by Rome between the 1950s and 1960s. This process has nurtured the conditions for . politicized commitment of the clergy, mainly among foreign religious missionaries, which incorporated new forms of professional practice and took hold of new services, defining a new image of the institution in the symbolic space.</p><p></p>