Language, memory and religion in Maurice Halbwachs Thought

• Autor(a) principal: Rivera, Dario Paulo Barrera
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Horizonte - Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2018v16n51p1177
• topic: memory; language; religion; Maurice Halbwachs; Sciences of Religion; Theology; memória; linguagem; religião; Maurice Halbwachs; Ciência da Religião; Teorias de Linguagem; Estudos de Religião; Teologia

Maurice Halbwachs was a thinker of the first decades of the twentieth century. He has a reflection on the relation between language and memory. This is an early reflection, because it happens at a time well before the development of the Philosophy of Language and too before the "linguistic turn." This article presents how Halbwachs understood the relation between language and memory. The Maurice Halbwachs thought is still little known in the field of Religion Studies in Latin America. His pioneering studies on social memory and religious memory were resumed in France only at the end of the twentieth century. Halbwachs' thinking scholars and scholars of religion have paid little attention to how he understood the relationship between language, memory, and religion. Language, time, and space are reviewed as social frameworks that support collective memory. We emphasize in the analysis of the proposed theme the characteristics of the religious collective memory.