Citation:
Gracia, Agustina. 2023.“Empowerment and agency among Llave Mariana’s practitioners: an ethnographic approach to an Argentinian spiritual movement”. in Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Abstract:
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to introduce a gender perspective on the study of an emerging spiritual movement called Llave Mariana. This spiritual movement mixes New Age elements –taken from Orientalist traditions– with Catholic figures, especially Virgin Mary. We start from a series of questions: What is the reason for the participation of a female majority within the movement? What are the conditions that lead these women to approach the spiritual world, its wisdom and techniques? What models of femininity do they elaborate and express? Finally, what are the transformations that these practitioners experience at a subjective and intersubjective level during this path?Presenter bio: Agustina Gracia holds a PhD and a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology by the University of Buenos Aires. She was a doctorate grant holder by the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). Since the year 2017 she is an Assistant Lecturer at University of Morón (Buenos Aires). She also taught at University of Buenos Aires and University of San Martín (Buenos Aires). She authored scientific articles in both national and international publications.
Presenter affiliation: University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)