Cuerpo y Religión, violencia y frontera. Un dualismo integrador

Abstract

The idea of human being, with its components: body and soul, according todifferent cultures and religions, beginning with the Greek, who established this dualisticconception, including catholic religion which supported the undervalue of the body, andthe overvalue of the soul, following up to more contemporary ideas which portray arejection of dualism and a theological literature that exposes the concept of “incarnation”,in order to dilute such dichotomy, is set out. As a local investigation we present the case ofpeasants from the Andean states of Venezuela (Tachira, Merida and Trujillo), whointegrated this dual thought in the way they see and understand the world along with asocio-economic background which has determined the peculiarity of these regions.