The local context of the religious field in the city of Relizane between (1970-2000)

Abstract

This descriptive (ethnographic) article will serve as a monitoring of the demise of a religious institution that is described as popular religiosity, and the emergence of another that is described as kinetic or intellectual religiosity within a local space. Therefore, the city of Relizane represents a good sample and representative of the extent of the weak religious framework of religious upbringing institutions, which were and still are present in society. The local community, and the extent of the weakness of its discourse, which has lost the ability to influence, efficacy, and mobilize, and this is what some contemporary sociologists express with the demise of the institution (François DUBET), and this is what will enable us to read the social changes of the institutions of upbringing, but according to a long time range, here we are not talking about the organization (organization) Rather, it is about the institution (INSTITUTION) in the sense of having a program, actors, and strategies for upbringing from within, and the institution is a symbolic program that contains special action rules, and the city of Relizane is a microcosm of how ready the community is to defend its cultural identity. Relizane also expresses the strength of the conflict between the groups within the local community, which found in the way of religiosity and the practice of devotional rituals a sanctuary in order to revive the struggle for power and influence