The procession of the Nazarenes is an example of popular religiosity, and is a staple of Holy Week celebrations in Segovia, Spain. <\/p>\n
Popular religiosity is as old as Christianity itself.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s an expression of how people pray and encounter God, but it risks being lost in our secularized world. <\/p>\n
DANIEL CUESTA, SJ Jesuit deacon Daniel Cuesta G\u00f3mez is the author of \u201cLights and Shadows of Popular Religiosity.\u201d In it, he explains that popular religiosity is not cultural expression without faith, rather it is the incorporation of faith in culture. But it is much more than that, he adds, it also carries a strong emotional element.<\/p>\n DANIEL CUESTA, SJ Cardinal Carlos Amigo wrote the prologue for the book. For the former Archbishop of Sevilla, \u201cpopular religiosity reflects a thirst for God that only the poor can know.\u201d<\/p>\n CARD. CARLOS AMIGO With his book, Daniel Cuesta G\u00f3mez invites readers to know and love the practices of villages around the world, so that they do not become relics of the past or reduced to folklore.<\/p>\n Daniel D\u00edaz Vizzi<\/p>\n Translation: Justin McLellan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" march 14, 2021. \u201cLights and Shadows of Popular Religiosity\u201d is the title of a new book by Jesuit deacon Daniel Cuesta G\u00f3mez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/e6PkxkCNoPU","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/blibroreligiosidadpopulareng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/blibroreligiosidadpopularint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Author, \u201cLights and Shadows of Popular Religiosity\u201d
\n\u201cOftentimes religious paintings today have been stripped of their soul. We only talk about the life of the artist and our interpretations of them. What they intended to express in their time is no longer expressed. Something similar is happening in popular religiosity. Many people outside the Church think of popular religiosity as a tourist attraction, an anthropological or historical phenomenon the same as other cultural events.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Author, 'Lights and Shadows of Popular Religiosity\u201d
\n\u201cWhen I was a teenager, in one of those crises of faith where you start to question everything, I remember how one of the floats in the procession stopped in front of me, and I was certain that it was Jesus who was looking at me and not the wooden image. Rather, it was Jesus through that wooden image. That left a lasting impression on me, and I said \u2018I have faith, I want to follow Jesus.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Archbishop emeritus of Sevilla
\n\u201c[Popular religiosity] comes very close to understanding that which is not understood from afar. That is, great things are not understood, they are lived.\u201d 05:30 FLASH 01:49 \u201cIt was ordinary people who taught me to love and understand popular religiosity, and understand might be an understatement. There is a lot of emotion behind popular religiosity. It is a love that cannot be fully understood.\u201d 02:09<\/em><\/p>\n