Abstract

MOLINA GARRIDO, Germán Andrés. God as Hitman: Violent Death and Theological Lawlessness in Colombia. rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2015, n.51, pp.241-256. ISSN 0123-885X.  https://doi.org/10.7440/res51.2015.18.

Dense description of liminal social experiences, characterized by painstaking work with details, is a unique laboratory for understanding ambivalent fissures, producing and produced, through which to discover clues about how solidification mechanisms work on imaginaries. Here I describe the collective experience of a violent death that occurred on a street in Bogota where an intensive sensory exchange took place between different social actors motivated by the public collection of the corpse. The scene thus reveals the fissures through which a process of normalization and naturalization of evil is filtered, derived from an ambivalent use of God, in the midst of an implicit social game of solidification called theological lawlessness here.

Keywords : Political anthropology; surreal ethnography; theological lawlessness; dialectical images; violent death; intersensoriality.

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