The Vicissitudes of Heritage Recognition and Valuation: The Case of Holy Week in Tunja (Colombia)

Abstract

This work gives an account of the heritage recognition processes of Holy Week in Tunja, a Catholic religious celebration that celebrates the paschal mystery, and which has developed for more than 4 centuries in the city of Tunja, a city of colonial origin where the Religious values are significant for social and collective recognition. This is the case of the Society of Nazarenes, a group of brotherhoods that finds in the celebration a space to circulate and position social and patrimonial values that are manifested in processional and worship activities. With this, the purpose of the text is to investigate the ways in which actions around religious heritage also constitute social organization practices that give rise to a positioning and valuation of heritage actors in the public sphere.KeywordsColombiaIntangible heritageLocal traditionsTunjaReligious cultureInclusion