Abstract

LOZANO GARZON, Liz Carolina. Spiritual Evangelical War or Indigenous Witchcraft? Magic-religious Practices of Former Combatant Paramilitary Members in War Contexts in Córdoba (Colombia). univ.humanist. [online]. 2009, n.68, pp.69-95. ISSN 0120-4807.

Former paramilitary combatants of the department of Córdoba (Colombia) have a mix of beliefs in their magic-religious arsenal that include the use of the "niños en cruz" of the Zenu (Sinu) tribe to protect themselves from bullets in a fight, as well as the practice of evangelical exorcisms para counteract the effects of that same witchcraft, among others. These ambiguous behaviors are due to the fact that the Cordoban tradition inherited a map of religious beliefs that were the product of colonial syncretization where the indigenous, at the same time that it is located at the base of the social pyramid, incarnates and serves the actions of the devil, to which the evangelical appears as a counter power. Analyzing the existing tensions between the use of indigenous magic and the evangelical "spiritual war" between former paramilitary combatants of Córdoba is the object of this article.

Keywords : paramilitary; Zenu (Sinu) witchcraft; spiritual war; evangelical doctrine; Córdoba; Colombia.

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