Thinking about Religion, Law, and Politics in Latin America

Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age is both important and insufficient to the study of religion, law, and politics in Latin America. While aspects of the North Atlantic experience of secularity have become globalized, shaping legal systems and other forms of collective governance around the world, local...

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Main Author: Shakman Hurd, Elizabeth
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Universidad de los Andes 2018
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spelling ftopenedition:oai:revues.org:revestudsoc/8898 2023-05-15T17:36:48+02:00 Thinking about Religion, Law, and Politics in Latin America Shakman Hurd, Elizabeth 2018-05-19 http://journals.openedition.org/revestudsoc/8898 en eng Universidad de los Andes Revista de Estudios Sociales info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0123-885X info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1900-5180 http://journals.openedition.org/revestudsoc/8898 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess secularismo religión ley América Latina Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos Charles Taylor secularism religion law Latin America Inter-American Court of Human Rights religião lei Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos info:eu-repo/semantics/article article 2018 ftopenedition 2019-06-02T00:19:24Z Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age is both important and insufficient to the study of religion, law, and politics in Latin America. While aspects of the North Atlantic experience of secularity have become globalized, shaping legal systems and other forms of collective governance around the world, local and regional histories and experiences often depart significantly from Taylor’s account of secularity and conception of religion. Scholars of religion and politics in the region need to consider those aspects of local and regional history, such as indigenous and Afro-descendent histories and experiences, that challenge or may be indifferent to globalized Euro-American experiences of secularity and religion. To do so requires grappling with the global effects of the history charted by Taylor while also moving beyond it to account for practices, histories, and ways of life that work outside or against “secularity 3” and the presumptions about religion that it presupposes and produces. La era secular de Charles Taylor es a un mismo tiempo importante e insuficiente para el estudio de la religión, el derecho y la política en América Latina. Si bien hay aspectos de la experiencia del Atlántico Norte que se han globalizado, dando forma a sistemas jurídicos y otras formas de gobernanza política alrededor del mundo, las historias y experiencias locales y regionales suelen distar significativamente de la explicación de la secularidad y la concepción de la religión de Taylor. Los estudios académicos sobre religión y la política en la región necesitan tomar en consideración aquellos aspectos de la historia local y regional, tales como las historias y experiencias indígenas y afro-descendientes, que desafían o pueden ser indiferentes para las experiencias de secularidad y religión euro-americanas y globalizadas. Hacer esto requiere forcejear con los efectos globales de la historia establecidos por Taylor y avanzar al mismo tiempo más allá de ellos para dar cuenta de las prácticas, historias, y formas de vida que operan por fuera ... Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic OpenEdition Allá ENVELOPE(17.421,17.421,66.587,66.587) Derecho ENVELOPE(-56.950,-56.950,-64.350,-64.350)
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Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
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Inter-American Court of Human Rights
religião
lei
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Inter-American Court of Human Rights
religião
lei
Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos
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Thinking about Religion, Law, and Politics in Latin America
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Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
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description Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age is both important and insufficient to the study of religion, law, and politics in Latin America. While aspects of the North Atlantic experience of secularity have become globalized, shaping legal systems and other forms of collective governance around the world, local and regional histories and experiences often depart significantly from Taylor’s account of secularity and conception of religion. Scholars of religion and politics in the region need to consider those aspects of local and regional history, such as indigenous and Afro-descendent histories and experiences, that challenge or may be indifferent to globalized Euro-American experiences of secularity and religion. To do so requires grappling with the global effects of the history charted by Taylor while also moving beyond it to account for practices, histories, and ways of life that work outside or against “secularity 3” and the presumptions about religion that it presupposes and produces. La era secular de Charles Taylor es a un mismo tiempo importante e insuficiente para el estudio de la religión, el derecho y la política en América Latina. Si bien hay aspectos de la experiencia del Atlántico Norte que se han globalizado, dando forma a sistemas jurídicos y otras formas de gobernanza política alrededor del mundo, las historias y experiencias locales y regionales suelen distar significativamente de la explicación de la secularidad y la concepción de la religión de Taylor. Los estudios académicos sobre religión y la política en la región necesitan tomar en consideración aquellos aspectos de la historia local y regional, tales como las historias y experiencias indígenas y afro-descendientes, que desafían o pueden ser indiferentes para las experiencias de secularidad y religión euro-americanas y globalizadas. Hacer esto requiere forcejear con los efectos globales de la historia establecidos por Taylor y avanzar al mismo tiempo más allá de ellos para dar cuenta de las prácticas, historias, y formas de vida que operan por fuera ...
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