Militant races: catholic communities and formation of subjects in Argentina

Abstract

Militant careers. Catholic communities and the training of individuals in Argentina. This article proposes an approach to the phenomena of the growth of communities inside religious families. The tension that these communities face between the pole of identity affirmation and the pole of the inclusion within the limits fixed by the religious tradition constitutes the group itself. The rituals, educational structures, discourses created by Catholic communities are a manifestation of this tension. In this article I will discuss three types of Catholic community in Argentina, focusing on the itineraries that members take to enter the groups, and on the training structures that these communities establish in order to socialise the new members in their community values and groups normativity.