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    CIRRuSConferenceContributions

    HabitusAnalysis:amethodtoanalyze

    cognitiveoperatorsofpracticallogic

    by

    HeinrichWilhelmSchfer

    ContributiontotheCongress

    BeyondBourdieuHabitus,Capital&SocialStratification

    UniversityofCopenhagenDecember1st.2nd.2009

    2009

    Heinrich

    Wilhelm

    Schfer,

    Universitt

    Bielefeld

    www.unibielefeld.de/religionsforschung

    Schfer:HabitusAnalysis 1

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    Abstract:

    ItiswellknownthatPierreBourdieudidnotdevelopaqualitativemethodcomparablewith

    the construct of the social space (La Distinction) allowing the analysis of habitus. The

    present

    paper

    sketches

    an

    outline

    of

    such

    a

    model,

    based

    upon

    field

    research

    on

    the

    PentecostalmovementduringwartimeinGuatemala(1985)andvalidatedwithPentecostals

    inmany occasions during 1995 to 2003 in LatinAmerica. Themethod is based upon the

    theoriesofhabitusandpractical logic. Itprovidestechniquesfortheanalysisofqualitative

    researchmaterialandforthereconstructionoftheactorshabitusand(religious)identityas

    anetworkofdispositions.First,themodel istransformativeandshowshowreligiousactors

    copewithexperiencesofuncertaintyorcrisisanddevelopfrom therecognitivepatternsof

    perception,judgment

    and

    action

    as

    well

    as

    identities

    and

    strategies.

    Second,

    the

    comparison

    oftwosuchmodelsshowshowdifferentialcopingwithuncertaintydevelopsoutofthemere

    differencebetweengivensocialpositionsand,accordingly,differentkindsofcrisisexperience

    althoughbothgroupsareworkingwiththesameinventoryofreligioussymbols.Finally,the

    combinationofhabitusanalysiswithamodelof the social spaceof religious stylesallows

    interpretingthehabituswithinthesocialrelationsofpower.

    Afteradevelopmentduringthe last20years,mostly inLatinAmerica,themethod isbeing

    testedand

    formalized

    since

    2006

    in

    different

    projects

    at

    the

    University

    of

    Bielefeld,

    Germany.1

    It iswell known thatBourdieu did not develop amethod for qualitative research on the

    subjectivesideofhumanpraxis.Instead,hisempiricalstudiesonhabitus,practicallogicon

    meaning,sotospeakrelymuchontraditionalstructuralistbinarism.(Bourdieu1977,1980)

    AlthoughtheconceptofhabitusiswidelyusedbyresearchesbasedonBourdieustheories

    yet there is very few intent to operationalize the concept in a method for qualitative

    empiricalresearch.2Especially,theconceptstill lacksawayofoperationalizingthespecific

    1ThiscontributionwaselaboratedinthecontextoftheCenterfortheInterdisciplinaryResearchon

    Religion and Society (CIRRuS). For an account of projects and publications see: http://www.uni

    bielefeld.de/%28en%29/theologie/forschung/religionsforschung/forschung/index.html (especially

    Publications

    and

    Open

    Access.

    2Indeed,thereisquitealotofliteraturediscussingtheconceptofhabitusonatheoreticallevel.But

    the author of these lines found only a few intents to deepen the understanding in specific

    methodology. DiazBone (2000), e.g., locates conventional discourse analysis within the broader

    Schfer:HabitusAnalysis 2

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    dimensions of the habitus perception, judgment and action as well as their

    transformative relations by a method for empirical research. This is precisely what the

    presentcontributionisgoingtooutline.

    Thedescriptivemodelatthecenterofourconsiderationswasdevelopedinthecontextofa

    qualitativefieldstudyonPentecostalisminGuatemalaandNicaragua,duringapproximately

    two and a half years in 1983, 1985 and 1986.3 For the present paper it is enough to

    concentrate on two religiously and socially contrasting samples: NeoPentecostals in the

    modernizinguppermiddleclassandClassicalPentecostals in the traditional lowerclassof

    Guatemala(Schfer2006).Thus,GuatemalanPentecostalswillservetoillustratethemodel

    inthe

    following.

    According

    to

    the

    intimate

    connection

    between

    habitus

    and

    field

    or

    social

    spacethatdoesnotsimplyconcedeaculturalturntoenterintoanalysisofpuremeaning

    Iwillcombinethemodelforhabitusanalysiswithoneofthesocialspace.SoIwillpresent

    two interconnecting formal models based upon Bourdieus theory: the space of religious

    styles and the praxeological square and network. First, I will outline some brief

    considerationsonmy readingofBourdieu.Second, Iwillexemplify theuseof themodels

    with some data on Pentecostalism; third and fourth, Iwill add some notes on themore

    specificmethodological

    and

    theoretical

    background

    of

    the

    model

    of

    habitus.

    1.SomeannotationsonBourdieu

    For my approach it is most important that Bourdieu relates social structures, their

    perception and action in a way that vanquishes the separation of what he calls social

    physicsofDurkheim and idealist semiologyofGarfinkel (Bourdieu 1984: 483). For the

    context of Bourdieus theory of habitus. A methodological approach to analyze the habitus of

    childrenbyvisualmaterialistakenbyHelmutBremerandChristelTeiwesKgler(2007);theyanalyze

    collagesaccordingtohabitushermeneutics.Similarly,BurkardMichelandJrgenWittpoth(2006)

    presentamethodologicalapproachtotheanalysisofphotographs.Kellner(2007)usestheconcept

    of habitus as a theoretical frame for an ethnological study of narrations, but without much

    consequenceforthemethodofnarrationanalysis.Additionally,thebeginningdebatesofagroup

    coordinatedbyThomasAlkemeyerandMichaelVesterwhomtheauthoriscommunicatingwithon

    habitushermeneuticsisworthmentioninghere.3

    producing

    195

    guided

    interviews,

    100

    taped

    sermons,

    some

    120

    protocols

    of

    religious

    services

    and,ofcourse,afielddiaryforobservations.ForfulleraccountsofthisresearchseeSchfer1992a,

    1992b,2003;forthecurrentsituationseeSchfer2009a;forthestateoftheartseeSchfer&Tovar

    2009.

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    sake of a clear conceptual distinction and better mutual relation but precisely not for

    separationIdistinguishbetweenlogicofpracticeandpracticallogic:Logicofpractice

    saysthis ishow itworksaroundherewhereaspractical logictellsthis ishowwedo it.

    Thus,

    the

    logic

    of

    practice

    connotes

    very

    much

    the

    models

    of

    social

    space

    and

    field;

    practical

    logic isrelatedtothedispositionsoftheactors.Habitus linksboth,asfaras it is intimately

    combinedwiththesocialpositionsoftheactorsandtheirspecificopportunitiesinthefields

    of action. The logic of practice is understood as condition of operation and principle of

    structuringthepracticallogic;andpracticallogicenablestheactorstoperceivethelogicsof

    practice,tojudgeandtoact.Consequentlypracticallogicstructuresidentitiesandstrategies

    oftheactorsand,hence,againthe logicofpractice.It ispreciselythis interactionbetween

    logicof

    practice

    and

    practical

    logic

    that

    overcomes

    the

    separation

    of

    social

    physics

    and

    social semiology. It is important to note that things, institutions and practices exert a

    semiotic forceandeffect;and thatsignsexertapragmatic forceandeffecton institutions

    andpractices.Therefore, inrespecttothepractical logicofgivenactorsandthe logicofa

    given practice, things, institutions, practices and signs can be seen as operators of such

    praxis.Lookat,e.g.,asentencelikeWearerightinthemiddleoftheendtimes.Thisisnot

    simplyareligioussignorthedesignationofarealstateofaffairs.Morethananythingelse,

    suchaphrase

    is

    apractical

    operator

    that

    generates

    specific

    ways

    of

    perception,

    judgment

    andaction,thatis:astructuringactivitywithinandonthelogicsofpracticeorsimply:praxis.

    So, by the way, the terminological distinction between practical logic and logic of

    practicesimplyrefers to thesubjectiveandobjectivesideofpraxis.

    Conceivingpraxis

    like this, I intend tounderscore the rootsofBourdieusunderstandingof the term in the

    youngMarx(ThesesagainstFeuerbach)and,finally,intheAristotelianconceptofbios.4

    However, theoperatorsofpractical logic come tobe relevant for the collective identities

    andstrategiesoftheactors.Operatorsofpracticallogicareembeddedorstoredwithin

    thehabitusof theactorsasdispositions.Theconceptofdispositionaclue forBourdieu

    himself talking about the habitus (Bourdieu 1980) underscores the readiness

    (predisposition, inclination, preference) of actors for certain (and not other) perceptions,

    4 So it remains obvious that we do not refer to thejuxtaposition of theory (in the sense of

    intellectual vision) and practice (in the sense of acting). In my understanding it even might be

    bettertospeakoflogicofpracticesinpluraltoavoidanyidentificationofpracticewithpraxis.

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    judgmentsandactions.Dispositionsrelatetoafieldofpraxisnotasanimagebutratheras

    aninstrumentthatexecutescertainoperationsasthisisnecessaryorwantedandthat,thus,

    interferes intothefield.Havingadispositionreliesverymuchonthephysicalandaffective

    energy

    of

    an

    actor

    quite

    similar

    to

    a

    spiral

    or

    elastic

    spring.

    It

    is

    the

    concept

    of

    disposition

    that linkscognitionclosely to sensorialhumanpraxis (asKarlMarxwouldhave it).As the

    conceptofdispositionstressesthereadinesstoperceive,tojudgeandtoactofreal, living

    human beings (instead of universal structures of the spirit, as Claude LeviStrauss would

    postulate) itunderscoresaswellthatthehabitusarechangingandmodifyingaccordingto

    thefluctuations(conjuncture)oftheconditionsinfieldsandsocialspace.

    Briefly: dispositions are incorporated operators of practical logic that are linked to one

    anotherby

    logical

    relations

    and

    in

    the

    form

    of

    anetwork.

    (This

    is

    the

    operational

    basis

    to

    conceiveofidentityasanetwork,too.)Buthere,theissueatstake isanotherone.Itisthe

    modelingofprecisely suchanetworkofoperatorsasa resultof thequalitativeempirical

    study of collective actors in our case Pentecostals in Guatemala during the counter

    insurgencywarinthe1980ies.

    Amodelofoperatorsofagivenpracticallogicshouldmeetthefollowingrequirements:

    Wecanconceiveoftheoperatorsofapractical logicasa logiccombinationoftermswhich

    are

    richincognitivecontent, structuredand generative.Moreovertheyhavetopossesstheattributesof

    orientatingand confining(thusstructuringandgenerating)perception,judgmentandaction.Thus,theyarethedeepstructuresofthoseprocessesthatgenerateknowledgeandaction.

    Moreover,theyaredirectlyrelatedtoexperienceandtheyarerelevantfortheidentitiesand

    strategiesof(individualandcollective)actors.Amodelofsuchoperatorsshouldbeableto

    represent theoperativeconnectionsofpractical logicas follows: Itshouldname thebasic

    cognitivedistinctions(ase.g.holyversusprofane)thatoperatetoconstructaspecificfieldof

    praxis;and itshouldrepresentthetransformationsbetweenexperienceand interpretation

    thatgenerate

    meaning.

    Consequently

    the

    model

    should

    be

    structural

    and

    generative

    at

    the

    sametime.Asthemodel linksexperienceand interpretation,thedemandoftheactorsfor

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    meaningshouldberepresentedinitsconnectiontothegenerationofmeaning.Finally,asto

    addressjudgmentexplicitly, theaxiologicalfunctionof theoperatorsshouldbe taken into

    account.

    Suchamodelcanbeconstructedasanetworkthatlinksoperatorsrelatedtodifferentfields

    ofpraxisandformsalargecognitivemapofan(individualorcognitive)actor.Itshouldbe

    possibletodistinguishsuchdifferentdomainsthatareinrelationtodifferentfieldsofpraxis.

    Moreover, itshouldbepossibletodistinguishcentralschemesofoperators frommarginal

    (orlessimportant)ones.

    Thus,it

    should

    be

    possible

    to

    define,

    by

    reconstructive

    analysis,

    for

    any

    given

    actor

    acentral

    formulaforthegenerationofmeaningoutofexperience,andtovisualizethevariationsof

    thisprocess.Finally,themodelshouldbeabletoshowhowtheoperatorsofpracticallogic

    arebeingusedfortheconstitutionofidentitiesandstrategiesoftheactors.

    Asthemodel focusesonthetransformationofexperience intomeaningandmeaning into

    experience, itsimulates inacertainsensethecloseconnectionbetweenhabitus, fieldand

    socialstructure.

    Nevertheless,

    the

    model

    of

    practical

    operators

    is

    not

    enough

    to

    reconstruct

    the objective position of the actors at stake, neither in fields nor in the social space.

    Thereforewecomplement themethodbya secondmodel: the social space,according to

    Bourdieu(1984).(Inthisarticlewewillnotenterintotheconstructionoffieldmodels.)This

    modelfacilitatestolocatetheactorsatstakeintheirpositionsrelativetothedistributionof

    economicandculturalcapitalinagivensociety.Itisonlybytakingsuchanobjectivecontext

    ofpraxis intoaccountthatthe identitiesandstrategiesoftheactorscanbeunderstoodas

    active forces in a given logic of praxis, that is in struggles for power and recognition, in

    inequality,enmity,alliancesetc.5

    AsIunfoldthemodelsinthefollowing,Iwillbeginwiththemodelofthesocialspace.Asthe

    actors Ihave studied are religious, themodel is interpreted as a social spaceof religious

    5

    At

    this

    point,

    some

    theoretical

    considerations

    would

    be

    necessary

    about

    the

    heuristic

    function

    of

    models,theproblemsoftherelationbetween logicsandsemantics,offormal logicandnonlogical

    praxis, the opportunities and pitfalls of homology construction etc. But this would definitely go

    beyondthescopeofthisarticle.

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    styles. Then I exemplify the model of the network of dispositions with Guatemalan

    Pentecostals.And finally Igiveanoutlineof theoreticalandmethodologicalaspectsofthe

    basicmodelinhabitusanaylsis:thepraxeologicalsquare.

    2.Thespaceofreligiousstyles:contrastingpositions

    AsinBourdieu,constructingthesocialspaceisnotmorethananintermediate,objectivistic

    steptounderstandinghumanpraxiswithin itssocialconditionings.So,themodelresponds

    totheneedofdescribingtheclasspositionofreligiousactorsastheconditionoutofwhich

    theirhabitusand, thus, theirpreferencesgenerate. Itmakes clearwhat level and kindof

    socialpower,

    expectations,

    constraints,

    opportunities

    etc.

    the

    different

    religious

    actors

    are

    associatedwith.

    Gross capitalvolume +

    Gross capitalvolume

    Social space of religious styles(habitus-formations)

    Guatemala 1985

    Neo-

    Pentecostals

    Classical

    Pentecostals

    Cultural capital +

    Economic cap.

    Cultural capital

    Economic cap. +

    Technolog. industrialists

    ManagersNew military

    Large Landownersarge LandownersOld militaryld military

    Middle farmersiddle farmers

    Merchantserchants

    Small peasantsmall peasantspeoneseones

    Skilledkilled labourabourTeacherseachersAdministrationdministration

    Marginalizedarginalized

    = Neo-Pentecostal interviewees= Class. Pentecostal interviewees

    Technolog. industrialists

    ManagersNew militaryManagers

    New militaryManagers

    New militaryManagers

    New militaryManagers

    New militaryManagers

    New military

    Technolog. industrialists

    ManagersNew military

    Technolog. industrialists

    ManagersNew military

    Technolog. industrialists

    ManagersNew military

    Technolog. industrialists

    ManagersNew militaryManagersanagersNew militaryew military

    Technologechnolog. industrialistsindustrialists

    The theoretical space is constructed according to Bourdieu (1984). It is modeled as a

    coordinate system by the implementation of two different forms of capital: economic

    (income)andcultural(education).Theverticalaxisconsistsoftheaggregationofbothforms

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    of capital; actorswith a high amount of both forms of capital are at the top, the others

    below.Thehorizontalaxisconsistsof the two formsof capitaldifferentiatedoveragainst

    oneanother;actorswithrelativelymoreeconomicthanculturalcapitalareontheright,and

    those

    with

    relatively

    more

    cultural

    than

    economic

    capital

    are

    on

    the

    left.

    6

    Thus,

    in

    Guatemala, big landowners are positioned in the upper right against industrialists and

    managers in theupper left;andsmallpeasantsarestuck in the lower rightagainstskilled

    laborinthelowerleftetc.

    Accordingtobasicsociostructuraldata(incomeandeducation)theintervieweesofthetwo

    subsamplescanbelocatedrelativelywellwithinthemodel.Theyaredistributedaccording

    tothe

    strong

    polarization

    of

    Guatemalan

    society

    during

    the

    years

    of

    economic

    crisis

    and

    counterinsurgency warfare:7 some in the modernizing upper middle class, others in the

    traditionallowerclass.Somuchfortheobjectivepositioning.

    Inrelationtoreligiousstyle,IdetectedthefollowingasIapproachedtoanalyzethehabitus

    of theactors (wewillsee thisanalysis furtheron):According to their socialpositions, the

    religioushabitusof theactors theirdispositionsandpreferenceswereverydifferent,8

    althoughall

    of

    them

    used

    acommon

    inventory

    of

    typical

    Pentecostal

    beliefs.

    Social

    positions

    6HavingimplementedBourdieusmodelofthesocialspaceinthe1980ies,inamoreethnographical

    way,wearenowdevelopingapreciselyscaledmodelforquantitativeresearchinourresearchteam.

    In order to achieve broad international compatibility we reduced the indicators to the most

    necessary.Economiccapitalisconceivedonthebasisofincome(equivalenceincomea.s.f.);cultural

    capital is conceived as formal education and is scaled according to the International Standard

    Classification of Education (ISCED byUNESCO).Of course it may be that social relations in given

    societies follow other criteria of structuring than the ones of economic and cultural capital (e.g.

    seniority).

    And

    some

    might

    say

    that

    in

    traditional

    societies,

    tribes,

    or

    post

    war

    societies

    (like

    Bosnia

    Herzegovina)socialcapitalisofmoreimportancethaneconomic.Ifthatisso,onemightwanttouse

    the relevant form of capital to construct a similarmodel.However, the research of our team at

    Bielefeld University (on social space: Leif Seibert and Patrick Hahne [BosniaHerzegovina], Jens

    Khrsen [Argentina],andKurtSalentin [asguest specialist for internationalquantitative research])

    indicatesthattherearemanygoodreasonstoadheretoasimplewayofmeasuringeconomicand

    culturalcapitalandtoconstructaverysimplemodelofdistribution.Thisprovidesaclearbasis for

    themostimportanttask:thescholarlyinterpretationofthesedata.7About thisdistributionofClassical Pentecostals andNeoPentecostals ismuchmore to say. For

    macrodevelopmentsseeSchfer1992a,1992b;forthemeso andmicrolevelcf.Schfer2006.8 It is important torealizethatwearenottalkingabout institutionalaffiliation,butabouthabitus

    formations.

    These

    are

    much

    more

    important

    for

    religious

    and

    social

    praxis

    of

    believers

    than

    their

    affiliation. Steigenga (2007: 267) for example has very good statistical data on the fact that the

    political behaviour of evangelicals is much more determined by their beliefs than by their

    denominationalaffiliation.

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    thusappearedasreligioushabitusformations,too.Inthepresentarticle,forsakeofbrevity,

    we call these groupingsof actors simplyNeoPentecostalsandClassicalPentecostals. The

    firstislocatedinthemodernizinguppermiddleclass(upperleft),thelatterinthetraditional

    lower

    class

    (lower

    right).

    Summing

    up,

    we

    can

    see

    that

    religious

    styles

    are

    distributed

    in

    society according to their correspondence with certain social positions and with their

    constraints,opportunities,grievancesandsoforth.

    Now,theanalysisofreligioushabitus,usingoursecondmodel,allowsspecifyingwithvery

    fine detail the cognitive dispositions and practical logic of these actors and thus

    understanding the religious meaning (Max Weber) that the actors ascribe to their

    practicesin

    the

    context

    of

    their

    social

    position.

    3.Thepraxeologicalnetwork:contrastingdispositionsofPentecostalsinGuatemala

    While the space of religious styles informs about socialpositions of religious actors, the

    praxeological square and network inform about their religious dispositions. We now

    exemplifyour

    model

    by

    the

    contrasting

    dispositions

    of

    middle

    class

    Neo

    Pentecostals

    and

    lowerclassPentecostalsinGuatemalaabout1985.9WefirstfocusonNeoPentecostalsand

    explain the basic model of the praxeological square and its extension into a network of

    dispositions;thenwegoonwiththeClassicalPentecostals,focusingonthebasicmodelof

    the square only, since this is sufficient to show the contrast between the two habitus

    formations.Themodelsbelowresultfromananalysisofinterviewsaccordingtoourmethod

    ofhabitusanalysis(seebelow).

    9Thisfindingisimportantsinceitshowsstronginternaldifferenceswithinwhatisoftentreatedasa

    homogeneous religious movement. In fact, the Pentecostal movement in Guatemala was quite

    uniform

    in

    terms

    of

    doctrine

    until

    the

    early

    eighties,

    and

    even

    after

    that,

    different

    strands

    of

    the

    movementmadeuseofacommonrepertoireofreligioussymbols.However,theyhaveconstructed

    differenthabitusoutofthesesymbols,accordingtotheirsocialposition,theirhabitusofclass,their

    interest,theiropportunitiesandtheirconstraints.

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    EmpoweredIndividuals

    Power of God in theHoly Spirit

    Action ofdemons

    Threat toextension ofupper middleclass power

    Level ofinterpretation

    Level ofexperience

    Quest of power decided

    Power threatended

    IdentityStrategy

    Praxeological square: Neopentecostals modernizing upper middle class

    A brief look at the NeoPentecostals in the uppermiddle class shows a religious praxis

    centered on the quest of social power (see axes): on the level of experience power is

    threatened,whileonthe levelofreligious interpretationthequestofpower isdecided.

    Theactorsexperiencea threat to their socialpositionofuppermiddleclass (through the

    guerrilla movement, paramilitary forces, economic crisis and a loss of control over their

    personallives).ThisisbeingansweredbytheNeoPentecostalChurchpromisingthepower

    of theHolySpiritonto thebelievers.Thus, theNeoPentecostal faithconstitutes thenew

    religious identity of spiritually empowered individuals. These individuals, finally, are

    endowedwith

    the

    capacity

    to

    combat

    the

    originators

    of

    the

    experienced

    threat:

    the

    demons. Thus, power turns out to be the central pattern for identity and exorcism the

    centralstrategicpattern.

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    Empowered

    Individuals

    Power of

    the SpiritDemons

    Loss of

    controll

    ~ ~

    Threatening

    soc. probl.

    Devil

    ~ ~

    GodsPower-action

    Social powerof Neopent.

    CulturalCatholic.

    God faraway

    ~ ~

    X

    Devil

    Violence

    of right

    ~ ~

    EconomicProsperity

    Gods actionin prosperity

    Devil

    EconomicProblems

    ~ ~

    PastoralAuthority

    Supernat.Powers

    SpecificDemons

    Rootedconflicts

    ~ ~

    Gods powerin Neopent.

    Pol. repres.

    of Neopent.

    Pol. struggle

    right/left

    Conflictparties

    ~ ~

    PowerOf God

    Evangelism Indig.culture

    God faraway

    ~ ~

    Christian

    military

    God Devil

    Violence

    of left

    ~

    PoliticalEvangelism

    Neop. Org.a. members

    Devil inpol. advers.

    Violence

    ~ ~

    X Teufel Teufel

    Minister

    Power ofSpirit

    Deseases

    The sick

    ~ ~

    Politics ofneop. members

    Soc. res-

    ponsablity

    Contradiction

    Poor/rich

    Poor andRich

    ~ ~

    [ HolySpirit ]

    CatholicCharismatics

    PoorProtestants

    Haereticpoverty

    ~ ~

    Einflussd. Teufels

    Kulturlose

    Protestanten

    ~

    Socialevangelism

    Neop. Org.a. memebers

    ~

    EinigeDenomin.

    Unorderlyspirituality

    Tradition.Pentec.

    Spirit inculture

    Extasisin church

    ~ ~

    [falseChurch]

    [ritualistic

    Piety ]

    Spirit.

    life

    Esch. David.Restauration

    ~ ~

    LatinMentality

    Decay ofNation

    North atlant.Capitalism

    Protest.Reformation

    ~ ~

    X

    X X

    X

    ~ ~

    System ofAntichrist

    Dominion ofAntichrist

    SufferingNeopent.

    Survivalin suffering

    ~ ~

    Probl. ofchr. Life

    Adversepowers

    ~

    AdversePowers

    Moral

    Decay

    ~

    Latin cult.heritage

    Latinity

    ~

    X

    ~

    Attacks onNeopent.

    Foes of Godin Guate.

    ~

    X X X

    Mirac. powerof Neopent.

    Godsvictory

    ~

    Soc. Power

    of Neopent.

    ~

    GodsFuture

    Chr. anti-soc.boom

    ~

    ~

    ~ ~ ~~

    X

    X

    God aspower basis

    Soc. Influen.

    of Neopent.

    Thebasicmodelofthesquarewillextend intoanetworkastheanalysisofinterviews(and

    othermaterial, ifdesired)proceeds. Then, in theNeoPentecostal sample, it canbe seen

    howtheactorsusethecentralstrategicschemeofexorcismindifferentfieldsofpraxis.The

    schemeisappliedtolesserpersonalproblemsbeingtheindividualChristianhisownexorcist.

    Italsoaddressesgravepersonalitydistortionswithaspecialministerasexorcist.Itcanalso

    be applied to military conflict, with Christian military as the exorcist and guerrillas or

    paramilitary forcesas thedemons finally legitimatingevenNapalmbombingson Indian

    villages.Further, thenetworkmodel rendersevident,howpowerstrategiescombinewith

    promisesofprosperityandwithdisdainforthepoor,aswellaswiththeideaoferadicating

    Latin style corruption in order to implant NorthAtlantic religious reformation and

    democracy,andsoforth.

    With reference to the interplay between experience and interpretation, position and

    disposition,

    the

    Neo

    Pentecostal

    example

    shows

    how

    religious

    meaning

    transforms

    the

    majorgrievanceoftheactorstheperceivedthreattotheirsocialpositionintoareligious

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    strategy of power. The actors produce, concomitantly, a specific religious identity and

    correspondingstrategiesturningreligiousmeaningquitepractical.

    The

    network

    facilitates

    analyzing

    religious

    identity

    politics

    as

    they

    where

    displayed

    by

    the

    interview quote at the beginning of this article. It shows how practical metaphors as

    exorcismorhealingtranslatemeaningandactionfromonefieldofpraxisintoothers:

    from personal wellbeing to economy, to politics and even to military action.10

    The

    instrument of the network shows that religious identity politics anchor intimately in the

    religiousconvictionsoftheparticularactors.Thisalsomeansthatforreligiousconvictions,in

    onewayortheother,socialandpoliticallivingconditionsalwaysmatter.

    This is also the case with Classical Pentecostals,who most vigorously affirmed to be a

    political.Theirsocialpositionsimplybreedsdifferentreligiousdispositions.

    In the traditional fractions of the lower class we find Classical Pentecostal praxis build

    around the quest for survival (continuity of history). People feel that they lack any

    possibility to shape their future, due to poverty and fierce military repression (loss of

    futureetc.).

    They

    counteract

    this

    situation

    with

    the

    promise

    of

    being

    removed

    in

    rapture

    from this world during the near second coming of Christ. This hope results in their new

    identityasachurchinpreparationfortherapture.Fromthisposition,theexplanationfor

    their lossofopportunitiesbecomesevident:during theapocalypseeverythingnecessarily

    changesfortheworse.Insuchasituation,themostviablestrategy isthefollowing:aclear

    break with political and social action and the withdrawal into the church exactly the

    strategy that,under repressionandmisery,allows forsurvival through ingroup solidarity.

    Thus,thereligiousinterpretationofhistory(ruptureofhistory)turnsouttobearationale

    andastrategyforanexperientialcontinuityofhistorywhichpracticallymeans:survival.It

    is this strategicpattern thatGuatemalan lower classPentecostalsdisplayed inalmostany

    socialrelationshipuntilthesebelieverschangedtheirbeliefsduringthepeaceprocessand

    thebeginningdemocratization.

    10Nowthewholebackgroundofsocialconnotationresoundsasoneintervieweesays:ActuallyIam

    busywithfindingasmanyfellowGuatemalansaspossibleinordertomakethenationtransformby

    innertransformationofeachGuatemalan.Interview59/87,December1985andFebruary1986.

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    Preparation of therapture

    Rapture of theChurch, return ofChrist

    End-times:certainty of thenear end

    Loss of future,misery, insecurity

    Level ofinterpretation

    Level ofexperience

    Discontinuity of history

    Continuity of History

    IdentityStrategy

    Praxeological square: classical Pentecostalism traditional lower class

    After thisshort flashlightonempirical findingswecandistinguishahabitusofcharismatic

    dominionover

    the

    world

    in

    the

    upper

    middle

    class

    from

    ahabitus

    of

    apocalyptic

    escape

    from

    theworldinthetraditionallowerclass.Hopefullythreethingshavebecomeevident.

    First, religious identities, identity politics and strategies vary according to the socialpositionsoftheactors,that is,accordingtotheirspecificgrievances,opportunitiesand

    constraints.

    Second,strategiesandidentitiesaswellaspreferencesandsocialpositionsarenotthatutterlydifferentastheaforementionedtheorygapmakesbelieve.

    Third,qualitativemodelingon thebasisofBourdieuspraxeologymakes sense for thestudyofcollective(andindividual)identitiesandstrategies.

    Afterexemplifyingthemethod,Inowturntothemethodologicalandtheoreticalaspectsof

    themodels.

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    4.Thesquare:cognition,identityandstrategy

    I hope that the empirical observations could already generate some plausibility for my

    opinion

    that

    these

    models

    help

    to

    relieve

    our

    theory

    grievances

    about

    the

    class

    dependency

    ofpreferences,thegapbetweenidentityandstrategyapproachesandabouttheimportance

    oflisteningtotheactors.Howeverletmespendsomemorelinesonthemodelsassuch.

    Themodelofthespaceofreligiousstyles,Ithink,isalmostselfexplanatory.Inanycase,itis

    asimpleadaptationofBourdieus(1984)basicmodelinLadistinctionforreligiouspraxis.So

    I leavethereadersfornowwiththerecommendationtosimplycomparethemodelabove

    withthe

    one

    developed

    by

    Bourdieu.

    Themodelofapraxeologicalnetwork,on theotherhand,needs someexplanationby its

    author. Obviously the network of practical operators is an extension of the basic

    praxeological square.Bothare, in termsof theory,developedoutofBourdieusnotionof

    practical logic.11

    Methodically they are intended to serve for reconstructing practical

    dispositions of interviewees. The model of the praxeological square is a sociological

    transformationof

    the

    semiological

    square

    of

    the

    French

    structuralists

    Algirdas

    Julien

    GreimasandFranoisRastier(Greimas1966,Greimas&Rastier1970).

    Theanalyticalmodelofthesquare,forsocialresearch,hastofulfillcertaindemands.First,a

    formal instrument, in itself not operating with presupposed religious content, allows for

    observing, if religion is at all important for the actors and, additionally, lets the religious

    preferences of the actors emerge as the clue for understanding their praxis. Second, the

    instrumentdoesnotinterferetoomuchwiththeactorsnarrativesoftheirreligiouspraxisin

    thecontextofopeninterviews.Third,itfacilitatesthecombinationofinterviewanalysiswith

    observationsandotherdata leadingtothereconstructionand interpretationoftheactors

    praxis.Aformalmodel,nevertheless,shouldnotadheresimplytostructuralistbinarism,to

    quasimetaphysical concepts of symbolic forms or to the idea of symbol systems.

    Instead, it should show how people generate practical sense as a sense for their praxis

    (Bourdieu).

    So,

    fourth,

    a

    model

    should

    enable

    researchers

    to

    structure

    the

    processes

    by

    11SeeBourdieu1980(aboveall,thechapteronthedemonofanalogy).

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    whichactorsgenerateasensefortheirpraxis.Andfifth,sincewesearchtounderstandalien

    praxis in its social context, the instrument shouldbe actionrelatedandprovideaway to

    relate the findings to the surrounding social structure; it shouldbeamodel for analyzing

    praxis

    in

    the

    Aristotelian

    (concept

    of

    bios)

    and

    Marxian

    (Theses

    against

    Feuerbach)

    sense

    of

    theword.Thus themodelpresentedhere isbasedon thepresupposition that inorder to

    understand alienpraxis, it isnecessary toestablish formal, actionorienteddistinctions to

    guidetheobservation,notcontentsorientedones.

    The semiotic square according to Greimas/Rastrier

    A B

    BNon B

    ANon A

    = Implication

    = Contrariness

    = Contradiction

    neutral

    complex

    S-axis

    S-axis (Non S-axis)

    Greimas and Rastier developed their model of a semiotic square out of a medieval

    combinationof

    the

    basic

    logical

    relations

    in

    Aristotelian

    logic.

    Three

    basic

    relations

    have

    been used during history precisely to structure the transformations in logical syllogism:

    implication, contrariness and contradiction. These basic relations are culturally universal,

    since in any culture people know the relations of causality (rain implies awet street), of

    difference(greenversusblue)andofmutualexclusion(lightversusdarkness).12

    Duringlate

    12ThereisadiscussionwhethertheAristotelianlawofnoncontradictionisvalidforAsianlogic,since

    A

    can

    allegedly

    also

    be

    B

    according

    to

    Asian

    logic.

    Nevertheless,

    it

    should

    be

    taken

    into

    account

    whetherweare talkingabout Abeing B ina certainaspect,perspectiveor context. In sucha

    case, the difference between European and Asian ways of thinking are no longer as grave.

    DarknesscanbelightforaEuropeanMysticaswell;however,thiskindofreligiousexperiencemakes

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    Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, these relations were organized into the socalled

    syllogisticsquare.ThismodelwasadaptedbyGremiasandRastier(1970)toanalyzedeep

    structuresofthesemanticuniverse.ThesquareasthetwoFrenchstructuralistsuse it

    describes

    the

    constraints

    according

    to

    which

    meaning

    is

    being

    produced.

    The

    square

    is

    made

    upof terms (A,B,NonAandNonB)whichare linked tooneanotherby three relations:

    contrariness (A to B andNonA toNonB), implication (A toNonB andB toNonA) and

    contradiction (A toNonAandB toNonB). The Saxis (contrary) is neutral, so that the

    termshaveaneitherorrelation.TheSaxis(subcontrary)iscomplex,sothattheterms

    haveanaswellasrelation.Finally,therelationsofimplicationarenameddeixeis.Thefirst

    deixis(AandNonB)isdefinedaspositive;thesecond(BandNonA)asnegative.Finally,the

    transverserelations

    (A

    to

    Non

    A,

    B

    to

    Non

    B)13,

    the

    schemata,

    are

    contradictory.

    For

    the

    deep structures of the semantic universe, the model shows that meaning is being

    constitutedbydifferenceandlogicaltransformation.Toputitsimply:togofromactiveto

    passive,logichastopassovernonactive.GreimasandRastierusethemodeltodescribe

    thesemanticuniverseofgenderrelationsinFrance.Thus,theydistinguish,onthepositive

    deixis,matrimonial(prescribed)andnormal(notforbidden)relationsasallowedfrom

    the relations on the negative deixis as excluded: abnormal (forbidden) and non

    matrimonial(not

    prescribed).

    The

    model

    suits

    for

    understanding

    the

    logical

    underpinnings

    ofmeaningsystems.Butitisnotsuitableforunderstandingthesocialprocessesofmaking

    senseofonespraxis.

    Inordertousethemodelfordescribingsuchsocialprocessesithastobetransformedfrom

    conceptual logic topropositionalandmost importanta levelofexperiencehas tobe

    distinguishedfroma levelofinterpretation(ormeaningascription).Undertheseconditions

    themodelcanbeusedsociologicallyinordertoanalyzemeaningfulsocialaction.

    Withreferencetoour initialquestionsontheoryandmethodwewillherebrieflyfocuson

    two aspects of the model: first, the cognitive transformations that operate between the

    experiences of social relations and the ascription of meaning to them; and second, the

    relationbetweenidentityandstrategy.

    senseonlywithintheframeworkthatthenormalorgeneralrelationbetween lightanddarkness is

    oneofmutualexclusion.13

    Later,inthisarticle,NonAwillbereferredtoasAandNonBasB.

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    Positiveexperience

    Positivemeaning Negativemeaning

    Negativeexperience

    Level ofinterpretation

    Level ofexperience

    Axis of clear-cut ascriptions and e xplanations

    Axis of comp lex contexts of action

    Epistemic transformationAction oriented transformation

    Praxeological square: cognitive transformations

    Looking at the cognitive operations that relate experience and their interpretation, the

    model shows that the basic logical operations flow between positive and negative

    experiences and correspondingmeaning ascriptions. They carry out two transformations:

    theepistemicandtheactionoriented(expressedbytheblackandgreyarrowsrespectively).

    Theepistemic

    transformation

    (black

    arrows)

    operates

    under

    the

    axiomatic

    dichotomy

    betweenpositiveandnegativemeaning,which is to say thatclearcutascriptionsand

    explanations interpretcomplexcontextsofactionandexperience,e.g.byascribingreasons

    for existence. In this way, the model helps to describe how experience, from its first

    moment,isbeingunderstoodnotonlyaccordingtohabitualschemesofevaluationbutalso

    according toperceivedopportunitiesandconstraints.Correspondingly, theactionoriented

    transformation (grey arrows) helps todescribehow conceptsof action arebeingmolded

    according to the forms of perception and evaluation of experience, and not only by

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    opportunities and constraintsof the field. In a formal sense: theprocessesof structuring

    experienceanddesigningactioncanbeunderstoodashomological.

    These

    transformations

    constantly

    relate

    the

    complex

    and

    fuzzy

    context

    of

    action

    with

    more

    or less clear cut categories of interpretation. It is these transformations where meaning

    arises.Meaning,thus,isnotsimplyareflectionofsocialstructuresorsomethingalike;itisa

    constant transformation of qualified experience (negatively and positively) intojudgment

    andaction.Meaningisinvolvedinaction.Andforthisreason,actionitselfandthechangeof

    opportunitiesandconstraintshavedirecteffectsonmeaning.Socialrelationsandmeaning

    ascription, therefore, should be and can be described together. We can then see that

    perceivedopportunities

    and

    constraints

    as

    well

    as

    grievances

    and

    self

    positioning

    of

    the

    actorsaresimplypartofoneandthesamesetofcognitivedispositions.14

    Intermsofsocial

    movement theory this implies the following: The term for negative experience can be

    understoodasperceivedcrisisorasgrievances,sincesocialmovements,accordingtoNew

    SocialMovementtheory,reacttosuchevents.Thetermofreasonsforpositiveexperience

    can be understood as perceived opportunities, and the term of reasons for negative

    experience as perceived constraints, according to Resource Mobilization theory.

    Correspondingly,the

    model

    allows

    for

    asystematic

    empirical

    integration

    of

    identity

    and

    strategyorientedapproaches.

    14Thismeansthat,forexample,thetermfornegativeexperiencecanbeunderstoodasperceived

    crisis

    or

    grievances,

    since

    social

    movements,

    according

    to

    New

    Social

    Movement

    theory,

    react

    to

    such events. The term of reasons for positive experience can be understood as perceived

    opportunities,andthetermofreasonsfornegativeexperienceasperceivedconstraints,according

    toResourceMobilizationtheory.

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    Position of themovement, base

    for strategies

    Solutions,alliances

    Structuralconditions,adversaries

    ArticulatedProblems,grievances

    Level ofinterpretation

    Level ofexperience

    Axis of cognitive elaboration of experience

    Axis of field-orientated elaboration of cognition

    IdentityStrategy

    Praxeological square: generation of identity and strategy

    Looking,second,atidentityandstrategy,themodelcanbereadasaprocessinwhichactors

    in our case religious movements position themselves within their social context.

    (Collective)actorsarticulategrievances, imagineand formulate solutions,andaffirm their

    position,e.g.as an empowered religiousmovement.Theprocessof interpretation thus

    allows foracognitiveelaborationofexperience inordertofindaposition inthe fieldof

    actionandanidentityasasocialactor.Movingfurtherfromthispositionofthemodel,the

    actorsarebeingdescribedasdevelopingstrategiestocopewiththestructuralconditions

    andadversariesthatcausetheirgrievanceswhilesolutionsandadversariesmodel

    thenotions

    of

    opportunities

    and

    constraints.

    The

    model

    thus

    articulates

    dispositions

    of

    perceptionandjudgmentasconditioning thedesignofstrategies. Itdoesnotexclude the

    possibilityof strategiccalculusbut itexcludes the illusion thatcalculiare free fromany

    (habitual)disposition.

    Forbothperspectivestheoneoncognitionaswellastheoneon identityandstrategy

    the model allows to structure the logic of the transformational processes of meaning

    ascriptionto

    experience

    and

    action,

    be

    it

    valued

    positively

    or

    negatively.

    In

    both

    perspectives, the model distinguishes a level (or, according to Greimas, an axis) of

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    experiencefromalevel(oraxis)of interpretation.Thedistinctionbetweentheselevelsis

    importantforunderstandingthetransformationwhichtakesplacebyascribingmeaningto

    experienceandaction.Meaningideas,symbolicsystemsetc. isbynomeansasimple

    mirror

    of

    nature

    (Rorty

    1979)

    or

    reality.

    Meaning

    is

    itself

    an

    operator

    of

    human

    praxis.

    It

    doesnot simply represent states of praxis, but, by virtueof being usedby humans for

    ascriptionorattribution,itbecomesinstrumental(bothinaWittgensteiniansense).Thisis

    howmeaningcomestotermsbytheprocessofinterpretationofexperiencedesignedinour

    model.Moreover,thedistinctionbetweenthetwolevels(oraxes)inthemodelleadstoa

    furtherobservation. In lateAntiquityandtheMiddleAges,themodelwasusedprincipally

    forpropositionallogic.Thisusagepointstoan importantdifferencebetweenthetwoaxes,

    thecontrary

    and

    sub

    contrary.

    While

    one

    (in

    our

    case

    the

    interpretation)

    affirms

    and

    negates universally, the other one (in our case experience) affirms and negates

    partially. In terms of Greimas, the first is neutral, the second complex. In our

    sociological use of the model, this means that the terms of interpretation of experience

    represent a clear cut meaning ascribed to fuzzy experience. As the actors ascribe

    according to their habitus, social position and interest meaning to experience, they

    generateclearconceptsofexperienced socialprocessesand structures thathelp them to

    shapetheir

    perceptions,

    judgments

    and

    actions.

    This

    is

    the

    case

    with

    any

    interpretation.

    Religious praxis, however, often counts with a stark difference between experience and

    interpretationalterms.Thisis,precisely,thereasonforitssocialpower.15

    Finally,themodelofthesquarecanbeextendedtoanetworkofoperators.Thesquareitself

    isalreadytheresultofawideranalysisofresearchmaterial.Thisexaminationdisclosesthe

    syntagmaticandparadigmaticconnectionsofsignsandthehierarchyofmeaningwithinthe

    texts. Thus, it allows for constructing a wide network of interlinked and homologous

    transformativesquares.Suchanextensionofthebasicmodelhelpstodescribethebroader

    structureofthenetworkofoperatorsthatmakeupthepractical logicofagivencollective

    (or individual) actor. Of course, such a network is not completely conclusive, has blank

    spaces,andopenendsjustasthepracticallogicofhumans isnotentirelycoherent,does

    notknowofeverythingandisopentochangeanddevelopment.

    15The specificdynamicsof religiouspractical logic cannotbediscussed in thispaper; see Schfer

    2004,2009b.

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    Theactor itself canbeunderstood tobe individualand collective.This is,becauseof the

    insightthatanyindividualshabitusistoacertaindegreehomologoustoitsclasshabitusand

    to

    the

    habitus

    of

    the

    religious

    movement

    the

    individuals

    belongs

    to.

    As

    for

    the

    method,

    that

    is to say thatonecananalyzeacollective setof interviews togetheroranalyze individual

    interviewsandcompareorsuperposethemlater,correspondinglytoonesresearchinterest.

    According to theory, in any case, habitus are to a certain extent always individual and

    collective.Thismeans that thenetwork, finally,canbe readasamodelofdispositionsof

    habitus,i.e.ofastructuredandstructuringgeneratorofpraxis(Bourdieu).Inthissense,it

    represents theempiricalandmethodologicalbasis fora theoryofidentityasanetwork

    (Schfer2005)

    of

    course

    anchored

    as

    well

    in

    the

    model

    of

    social

    space.

    Conclusion

    Finally,IhopethatthereferencetoBourdieuiansociologyandthemodelofapraxeological

    networkareofsomeusetocopewiththetheoreticalandmethodicalchallengespresentto

    theresearch in identitiesandstrategiesofsocialandreligiousmovements.Themodelsdo

    notcall

    for

    many

    pre

    conditions.

    We

    simply

    presuppose

    that

    religion

    and

    social

    action

    is

    praxis and we try to construct a model, as formal and common as possible, for the

    interviewees to fill inwith those contents that are relevant to their praxis.We do not

    presupposemorethanthat

    first, every person has experiences which he or she values positively and otherexperienceswhichheorshevaluesnegatively;

    second,everypersoninterpretssuchexperiencesinsomeway,regardlessofthespecificcontentsofsignsorsymbolsheorshemayapplytodoso;

    third,everypersonliveswithinasocialcontext,whateveritmaybe.

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