Approach to the Ethnoeducation and the Religious Experience of Young Colombian Afro-descendants
Jorge Alberto Paez Pinto
SOCIAL Review International Social Sciences Review / Revista Internacional de Ciencias Sociales September 6, 2021 DOI: 10.37467/gka-revsocial.v10.2821 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Case study Case report Peer reviewed |
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| Population | Young Afro-descendants in Colombia |
| Keywords | Education |
| Key findings | The work analyzes how ethno-education, as a public policy in Colombia, enables the development of the religious experience of young Afro-descendants, whose religious and cultural beliefs are rooted in their origins and traditions. It frames religious experience as reconstructed through the active relationship between personal consciousness and the disruptive presence of a transcendent "other." |
Abstract
Religion is a complex human phenomenon that can be analyzed from different epistemological and anthropological perspectives, from which religious experiences are reconstructed as part of the active relationship between personal consciousness and the disruptive presence of a transcendent "other". In Colombia, there is a significant population of young Afro-descendants who have a series of religious and cultural beliefs rooted in their origins and traditions. Under this consideration, in this research, case of study, it is analyzed how ethno-education, as a public policy in Colombia, allows the development of the religious experience of young Afro-descendants.