Religiosidades instituyentes / religiones instituidas

Abstract

The present text it tries to show the complex existing dialectics between the instituting thing and the instituted that acts in the domain of the religious thing. For it, it distinguishes, first, between religiousness and religion, emphasizing the peculiarity of the relation that is given between both. On one hand, it highlights how the survival of the original instituting religiousness happens for the transformation of this one under the form of instituted religion. On the other hand, it reveals, likewise, how the forms of instituted religion suppress and, at the same time, they irritate the liberation of an instituting religiousness that, come spontaneously from the dynamics a social group, it is born as alternative or opposition to the instituted religion.