¿Termina o se transforma? Un siglo de secularización y religamiento del Cerro de los Ángeles a El Rocío

Abstract

Two different centenary anniversaries, quite significant for contemporary Roman Catholicism, have been celebrated in 2019 very close in time. They had anyway different impact in both public institutions and the population. These events triggered an investigation about the changes and the settings of the religious behavior of Spaniards between May, 30th 1919, when King Alfonso XIII of Spain consecrated the country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and June, 8th 2019, when it took place the centennial anniversary of the canonical coronation of the holy sculpture of the Madonna of El Rocio, the patron saint of Almonte city. In our research, we will analyze the historiography of these two cases by linking some concepts of sociology with the cultural study of religion.