(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2024-12-06) Bernex Weiss, Nicole
This article presents briefly the distinguished Augustinian missionary, Cavalier of the Amazon, honorary professor of the Department of Humanities of the PUCP, Father Joaquín García Sánchez OSA. His extraordinary geographical itinerary is recounted from his childhood walking the landscapes of the Sabero mining basin (León, Spain) to his arrival and immersion in the Loreto Amazon. Builder of intercultural bridges, Father Joaquín was a man of dialogues that were transformed into works (Center for Theological Studies of the Amazon, Amazonian Library, Irapay, Shupihui, Kanatari, Monumenta Amazónica, among others). For more than 55 years, he dedicated himself to living in, with, and for the Amazon from all its biophysical, sociocultural, economic, environmental, and political diversities. His studies, listening, generosity and closeness to the most relegated, his defence of peace and democracy were combined with the development of an indigenous pastoral and ecotheology. Its impressive geographical horizon integrates the living and lived dimensions of the Amazonian territories, memories and interscalarity. With “Amazonium”, Father Joaquín left us an exceptional scientific, moral and alteretic heritage, inviting us to make this dream our own.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2024-12-06) Novoa Goicochea, Zaniel
The article presents the links between Geography and Religion based on the following hypothesis religious practices of human groups participate in the construction of the space and the generation of spatial organization models in the Peruvian Amazone. The research aims to study the forms of territorial occupation and the models of space organization that emerged from religious practices. After, a theoretical framework is developed on spatial organization with emphasis on social and cultural factors. In this research, the author also proceeds to put into practice a descriptive methodological process, supported by a long field work, interviews, literature review, creation of cartography and chorematic schemes. All of these contributes to present the socio-religious structures and models of organization that correspond to the three cases of churches studied. The main contributions lead us to conclude and confirm that there is a link between geography and religion. The research let us acknowledge the relationships between society and territory are linked with practices based on the exercise of faith. Furthermore, this research allows us to understand the postulates and key concepts in the Geography of Religion such as: socio-cultural factors, socio-religious structures, religious landscapes, space organization models and others.