The article approaches the religious group as a moving territory cutting through old jurisdictions; it points at the growing emphasis on the use of doctrinal elements as emblems or marks of group belonging with a corresponding reduction of the internal discourse and deliberation; and suggests that there is an exacerbation of inter-group frontiers not because it responds to a real interest in doctrinal difference but as a strategy to consolidate internally cohesive networks that start acting as political identities and interest groups.
identity politics; Latin-American religion; territoriality; territory