An enchanted modernity: Making sense of Latin America’s religious landscape
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 us...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/2050303217732131 2024-09-15T18:23:18+00:00 An enchanted modernity: Making sense of Latin America’s religious landscape Morello SJ, Gustavo Romero, Catalina Rabbia, Hugo Da Costa, Néstor 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050303217732131 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2050303217732131 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/2050303217732131 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Critical Research on Religion volume 5, issue 3, page 308-326 ISSN 2050-3032 2050-3040 journal-article 2017 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/2050303217732131 2024-07-29T04:24:24Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic SAGE Publications Critical Research on Religion 5 3 308 326 |
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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. |
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An enchanted modernity: Making sense of Latin America’s religious landscape |
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