Romberg R (2011)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2011
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Edited Volumes: Economic Anthropology (Special Issue: The Economics of Religion: Anthropological Approaches)
City/Town: Bingley
Book Volume: 31
Pages Range: 123-156
ISBN: 978-1-78052-228-9
This essay situates the significance of “spiritual capital” within Puerto Rican brujería (witch-healing) in relation to re-enchantment theories of modernity. It argues that the merging of spiritual and economic values has engendered a form of “spiritualized materialism” that has turned sheer economic prosperity into spiritually wrought rewards. Within this moral economy, matter does not simply function as a conduit for the sacred; it actually constitutes the very idea of the sacred. In comparison to recent work on corporate attempts to fuse religious ethics with business, this essay is noteworthy in that it unravels the logic and effect of such fusions at the vernacular religious level.
APA:
Romberg, R. (2011). Spiritual Capital: On the Materiality and Immateriality of Blessings in Puerto Rican Brujería. In Lionel Obadia, and Donald C. Wood (Eds.), Economic Anthropology (Special Issue: The Economics of Religion: Anthropological Approaches). (pp. 123-156). Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
MLA:
Romberg, Raquel. "Spiritual Capital: On the Materiality and Immateriality of Blessings in Puerto Rican Brujería." Economic Anthropology (Special Issue: The Economics of Religion: Anthropological Approaches). Ed. Lionel Obadia, and Donald C. Wood, Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011. 123-156.
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