Laicidad and Religious Diversity in Latin America

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction: Laicidad and Religious Diversity: Themes in the Debates on the Regulation of Religion in Latin America

   • Juan Marco Vaggione, José Manuel Morán Faúndes

   Pages 1-20

3. The Problem of the Plaza: Religious Freedom, Disestablishment and the Catholic Church in Latin America’s Public Square

   • Julieta Lemaitre

   Pages 21-41

4. Laicism: Exclusive or Inclusive?

   • Faviola Rivera-Castro

   Pages 43-56

5. “It Takes Two to Tango”: The Religious and the Secular in Argentina’s Political Dance, 1860–1960

   • S. J. Gustavo Morello

   Pages 57-71

6. Laicidades in the Andean Sub-region: Laicidad, Sexuality, and Reproduction in Bolivia’s and Ecuador’s Constituent Assembly Debates

   • Marco Huaco Palomino

   Pages 73-100

7. Religious Actors and Discourses in the Public Sphere: Controversies Around Sexual Education in Argentina

   • Juan Cruz Esquivel

   Pages 101-122

8. Poverty, Sexuality, and Human Rights: Pluralism or Hegemony? Discourse of the Peruvian Catholic Church on LGBT Human Rights Within the City of Lima

   • Martín Jaime

   Pages 123-140

9. Evangelicals Within Contemporary Argentinean Politics: Logics and Political Actors Around Sexual and Reproductive Rights

   • Daniel Eduardo Jones, Marcos Andrés Carbonelli, Santiago Luján Cunial

   Pages 141-156

10. Radiography of a Confessional State: The Religious Spectrum in Costa Rica

    • Laura Fuentes Belgrave

    Pages 157-179

11. Back Matter

    Pages 181-182

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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.

 

• Sociology of religion
• Religion in Latin America
• Secular State in Latin America
• Religion and diversity
• Laicite and secularism
• Religious beliefs
• Catholic Church
• Deprivatization of religion
• Secularization in Latin America
• Christianity in Latin America
• latin american politics

“This volume seeks to contribute to the construction of bridges between the region’s own academic production and the English-speaking academic audience, in order to establish a critical dialogue that enriches comparative perspectives. ... The theme is far from exhausted, and with each turn of the screw, new variables come on the scene requiring new analysis and new looks. This book undoubtedly contributes to the broadening of our eyes on the vast and complex reality of Latin America.” (Edin Sued Abumanssur, International Journal of Latin American Religions. Vol. 1, 2017)

• Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, Law and Social Research Centre of the National University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina

  Juan Marco Vaggione

• Post-doctoral fellow of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, Law and Social Research Centre of the National University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina

  José Manuel Morán Faúndes

Juan Marco Vaggione: Ph.D. in Sociology, New School for Social Research and Doctorate in Law and Social Sciences, National University of Cordoba. Independent Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET-Argentina). Professor of Sociology of Law at the National University of Córdoba. His publications deal with sexual rights and the relation between religion and sexual politics in Latin America. 



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.

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