Creer, enfermar, cuidar, sanar.Fundamentos para una investigación sobre el pluralismo médico y religioso en el cristianismo madrileño

Abstract

Despite of classic secularization’s theories predicting the end of religions (Cantón, 2009), others recognise the continuity of the latter in modernity. These contemporary theories conclude that the religious fact is rather subjected to transformations (Estruch, 1996). Focusing in this context, Weberian opposition between science and religion isn’t completed yet, as some continuity between the realms of the medical and the religious/spiritual illustrate (Blázquez et alii, 2014b: 4485). This article looks over that matter; by means of a review of the health, illness, and care process in religious and spiritual communities in the Spanish social anthropology’s literature; first, and then, with a research’s proposal through three current cases in urban Madrid: Catholic Charismatic Renewal; Church of Christ, Scientist; and Seventh-day Adventist Church. This text follows up a research’s proposal wrote as a master’s dissertation, as well as it couldn’t have been possible without previous fieldwork research with Seventh-day Adventist Church (2012-2014). Additionally, it’s the starting point of a PhD thesis still in process.