Overview
- Presents and pursues a multidisciplinary approach that strengthens and deepens the understanding of laicite and religious diversity in Latin America
- Describes specific dynamics in religion in different countries and identifies regional aspects
- Presents contributions from Latin American scholars in English
Part of the book series: Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies (BOREFRRERE, volume 6)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About this book
This book presents revealing reflections on historical, socio-political, and legal aspects, as well as their contexts, in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. Further, it includes theoretical and empirical analyses that identify the connections between religion and politics that characterize Latin American countries in general.
The individual chapters are based on a dialogue between regional and international approaches, renewing them and taking them to their limits by incorporating the Latin American experience. The book reflects the current intensification of research on religion in Latin America, the resulting reassessment of previous approaches, and the strengthening of empirical studies. It provides vital insight into the ways in which politics regulates the religious sphere, as well as how religion modulates and intervenes in politics in Latin America. In doing so it builds a bridge between the findings of researchers in the region on the one hand and the English-speaking academic public on the other, contributing to a dialogue that enriches comparative perspectives.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
José Manuel Morán Faúndes: Ph.D. in Latin American Social Studies, National University of Córdoba. Post-doctoral fellow of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET-Argentina), Law and Social Research Centre. Professor of Sociology of Law at the National University of Córdoba. He studies the relationships between religious conservatism, sexual politics and neoliberalism and Latin America, with emphasis on biopolitical approaches.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Laicidad and Religious Diversity in Latin America
Editors: Juan Marco Vaggione, José Manuel Morán Faúndes
Series Title: Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44745-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44744-5Published: 11 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83127-5Published: 28 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44745-2Published: 01 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2214-5281
Series E-ISSN: 2214-529X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 182
Number of Illustrations: 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Comparative Religion, Latin American Politics