WORKING FOR GOD’S LOVE AND A PLACE IN HEAVEN
This paper is on how auxiliar numeraries, hundreds of women working for the Opus Dei in Mexico, dedicate their efforts and lives to that organization under the promise to get a place in heaven,…and a very small income. They are a vulnerable group, coming from the poor countryside or marginal city’s...
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Universidad Autónoma Indígena de México
2014-07-01
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| description | This paper is on how auxiliar numeraries, hundreds of women working for the Opus Dei in Mexico, dedicate their efforts and lives to that organization under the promise to get a place in heaven,…and a very small income. They are a vulnerable group, coming from the poor countryside or marginal city’s neighborhoods, and/or with an indigenous community’s background. They are trained to love God through the “charisma”, a set of rules and beliefs that helps them transit a life’s plan to seek their way to heaven. They work confident that following this path they will find salvation, meanwhile they take care of the Opus Dei’s centers, performing activities such as housecleaning.
In exchange for their work they earn a salary, that doesn’t go further than their basic needs. Being the organization’s finances something unclear, it is hard to establish whether they could have been used as “cheap labour”. Opus Dei’s executives claim that the organization is deficietary because of all the social work they do; therefore, and that they can only pay a very restricted wage to these women. Based on interviews, fieldwork, bibliography and on-line research, the article shows how that claim may not be correct, and that some kind of rights violations are behind the relationship between the Opus Dei - auxiliar numeraries. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3a65bc07d9eb4416ab91c842c2cafaa92022-12-21T19:01:20ZengUniversidad Autónoma Indígena de MéxicoRa Ximhai1665-04411665-04412014-07-0110Especial 7133145WORKING FOR GOD’S LOVE AND A PLACE IN HEAVENVirginia Ávila-GarcíaThis paper is on how auxiliar numeraries, hundreds of women working for the Opus Dei in Mexico, dedicate their efforts and lives to that organization under the promise to get a place in heaven,…and a very small income. They are a vulnerable group, coming from the poor countryside or marginal city’s neighborhoods, and/or with an indigenous community’s background. They are trained to love God through the “charisma”, a set of rules and beliefs that helps them transit a life’s plan to seek their way to heaven. They work confident that following this path they will find salvation, meanwhile they take care of the Opus Dei’s centers, performing activities such as housecleaning. In exchange for their work they earn a salary, that doesn’t go further than their basic needs. Being the organization’s finances something unclear, it is hard to establish whether they could have been used as “cheap labour”. Opus Dei’s executives claim that the organization is deficietary because of all the social work they do; therefore, and that they can only pay a very restricted wage to these women. Based on interviews, fieldwork, bibliography and on-line research, the article shows how that claim may not be correct, and that some kind of rights violations are behind the relationship between the Opus Dei - auxiliar numeraries.https://drive.google.com/a/uaim.edu.mx/file/d/0B3tidJTiCU5eeFlqS2JjeHMwVUk/viewOpus Deichep labourauxiliar numeraries |
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| title_short | WORKING FOR GOD’S LOVE AND A PLACE IN HEAVEN |
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| topic | Opus Dei chep labour auxiliar numeraries |
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