An enchanted modernity: making sense of Latin America's religious landscape

Da Costa Velázquez, Néstor - Morello, Gustavo - Romero, Catalina - Rabbia, Hugo

Resumen:

This is an interpretative, critical, and selective review of scholarly contributions that explore Latin America’s religious landscape. We present data, both qualitative and quantitative, from Latin America and analyze the explanations given to make sense of it. After assessing the literature that uses either secularization theory or the “religious economy” approach, we study explanations that highlight a Latin American style of “popular religiosity.” These three models, in different ways, put the emphasis on religious institutions—their vitality, commands, competition, and authority. We propose, instead, a focus on the religious practices of regular believers. We speculate that embarking from that focus, the idea of an “enchanted modernity” will help make sense of Latin America’s religious landscape. Nuanced elucidation of Latin America’s religious particularities will situate them in dialogue with other regions of the world, like western Europe and the United States, while also acknowledging the fact that Latin America is experiencing a modernization process distinct from the North Atlantic one.


Detalles Bibliográficos
2017
Secularización
Religión
Elección racional
Religiosidad popular
Modernidad
Inglés
Universidad Católica del Uruguay
LIBERI
https://hdl.handle.net/10895/1470
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Rabbia, Hugo
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spellingShingle An enchanted modernity: making sense of Latin America's religious landscape
Da Costa Velázquez, Néstor
Secularización
Religión
Elección racional
Religiosidad popular
Modernidad
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title An enchanted modernity: making sense of Latin America's religious landscape
title_full An enchanted modernity: making sense of Latin America's religious landscape
title_fullStr An enchanted modernity: making sense of Latin America's religious landscape
title_full_unstemmed An enchanted modernity: making sense of Latin America's religious landscape
title_short An enchanted modernity: making sense of Latin America's religious landscape
title_sort An enchanted modernity: making sense of Latin America's religious landscape
topic Secularización
Religión
Elección racional
Religiosidad popular
Modernidad
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