ANTROPOLOGÍA DEL MILENARISMO: EL PREMILENARISMO ENTRE LOS ADEVENTISTAS Y PENTECOSTALES EN LOS ESPACIOS FRONTERIZOS CHILENO-BOLIVIANOS*

Abstract

The goal of this article is to analyze the cultural conditions and theoretical proposals of pre-Millenarianism and their uses as resources for some of the religious communities present in Chilean and Bolivian border spaces. We have divided the article into three parts: (I) Millenarianist myths in (cross)Andean spaces, (ii) theories on Millenarianism and (iii) (Pre)Millenarianism at the Chile-Bolivia border. The final section is divided into three sub-sections on the use and transformation of pre-Millenarianism by Adventist and Pentecostal communities as a triple resource: social, political and symbolic, which breaks with the myth of pre-Millenarianism conceived of as social flight and quietism. As a result, a belief is constituted that activates the believer in the hope of social mobility in Heaven and the possibility for social change on Earth.