The drama of a founder. Exclusion and omission of a leader of the Chilean Pentecostal movement (1909-1910): Elena Laidlaw

Authors

  • Miguel Ángel Mansilla Director del equipo de investigación Religión, política y Cultura del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales (INTE) de la Universidad Arturo Prat de la ciudad de Iquique, Chile.
  • Luis Orellana Integrante del equipo de investigación Religión, política y Cultura del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales (INTE-UNAP), Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique, Chile
  • Carlos Piñones Integrante del equipo de investigación Religión, política y Cultura del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales (INTE-UNAP), Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique, Chile
  • Wilson Muñoz - Integrante del equipo de investigación Religión, política y Cultura del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales (INTE-UNAP), Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique, Chile - Investigador Asociado, Universidad de Tarapacá-Chile. -Investigador Asociado, Grupo de Investigacions en Sociologia de la Religió (ISOR), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona -Investigador doctoral, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale (LAS), Collège de France/CNRS/EHESS. - Becario doctoral CONICYT (Programa Becas Chile).

Abstract

The reconstructions that the social sciences, apologetic history and theology have realized on the origins of Chilean Pentecostalism have been characterized by a significant limitation: the creation of a distorted image or the simple absence of one of its founding leaders, Elena Laidlaw. The double objective of this article is to reconstruct and describe the role played by this woman in the birth of the Pentecostal movement, as well as the socio-religious conditions that generated her exclusion and omission from Protestantism and Chilean Pentecostalism. As a theoretical perspective we have used the dramaturgical theory of Turner, while as a methodology we have used the analysis of primary and secondary documentary sources.

Keywords: drama, exclusion, Pentecostalism, Chile, Elena Laidlaw.

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Published

2017-04-07

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Vol. 21 No. 2 (2017): May/August

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