Sociologies and the discursive power of religions
Sociologies and the discursive power of religions

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Publisher: El Colegio de Mexico AC

Published: 2020-11-05

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 6075642145

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This book is about the counter-intuitive, awkward influence of religion on sociology in Mexico. More generally though, this is a book about societies in different world religions that strive for secularism on the one hand, and yet on the other hand may blend their most revered scientific rationalities with not onlu their pressing moral concerns, but also their most deeply held beliefs. The books offers no prescription for disentangling these apparently incompatible ways of knowing; it instead invites readers to challenge the acepted narratives, and to rethink the taken-for-granted secularism of the social sciences.

Popular Religion and Modernization in Latin America
Popular Religion and Modernization in Latin America

Author: Cristian G. Parker

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2015-10-14

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 149823819X

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This landmark work constitutes a complete historical, sociological, and political view of religion as a cultural expression in Latin America. Parker shows how, beginning with the arrival of the conquistadors, religion has played a transcendent role in shaping the national cultures of the region, particularly its popular cultures, and continues to do so. Parker argues that while capitalistic modernization and urbanization do lead to secularization, this process is not linear or progressive. Secularization in Latin America does not destroy its religious fabric but rather transforms it, accentuating its pluralistic character. Christianity, and particularly Roman Catholicism, has influenced Latin American identity and culture most profoundly. But it has by no means been the sole influence, nor has Christianity itself remained unchanged in the process. As a product of history and capitalistic modernization, the trait of religion that emerges most clearly is that of cultural and religious pluralism.

Cristologia e missione oggi
Cristologia e missione oggi

Author: Gianni Colzani

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Published: 2001

Total Pages: 410

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Il presente volume costituisce la raccolta degli interventi dei relatori al Congresso di Missiologia organizzato dalla Pontificia Università Urbaniana e dall'International Association of Catholic Missiologists (IACM). Il Congresso, svoltosi a Roma dal 17 al 20 ottobre 2000, ha proposto una riflessione missiologica sul passato, sul presente e sul futuro della missione cristiana studiando il ruolo salvifico di Gesù Cristo alla luce dei contesti socio-culturali dei diversi continenti. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali

The Many Meanings of Poverty
The Many Meanings of Poverty

Author: Cynthia E. Milton

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780804751780

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The Many Meanings of Poverty is about poverty in a colonial context—it argues that the cultural meanings of poverty defined social compacts that served to bolster and undermine the sources of colonialism.

Social, Political, and Religious Movements in the Modern Americas
Social, Political, and Religious Movements in the Modern Americas

Author: Pablo A. Baisotti

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-30

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1000540022

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This volume explores several notable themes related to social, political, and religious movements in Latin America and offers insightful historical perspectives to understand national, regional, and global issues from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. This volume’s collected chapters focus on the Latin American society and are divided into three sections. The first section, Social, presents some cultural, demographic, and urban changes that have occurred with increasing frequency in Latin America from the early twentieth century onward. The second section, Political, shows migratory, political, and identity movements that in recent decades have re-emerged with force. Finally, the third section, Religious, analyzes various Latin American religious visions with their particular characteristics. From the religious hegemony of Catholicism, a change in the religious panorama in the last decades can be seen intermingled with politics, history, and society.

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Publisher: IICA

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Total Pages: 81

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Middle Class Pentecostalism in Argentina
Middle Class Pentecostalism in Argentina

Author: Jens Köhrsen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9004310142

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In Middle-Class Pentecostalism in Argentina: Inappropriate Spirits Jens Köhrsen offers an intriguing account of how the middle class relates to Latin America's most vibrant religious movement. Based on pervasive field research, this study suggests that Pentecostalism stands in tension with the social imaginary of the middle class and is perceived as an inappropriate lower class practice. As such, middle class Pentecostals negotiate the appropriateness of their religious belonging by demonstrating distinctive tastes and styles of Pentecostalism. Abstaining from the expressiveness, emotionality, and strong spiritual practice that have marked the movement, they create a milder and socially more acceptable form of Pentecostalism. Increasingly turning into a middle class movement, this style has the potential to embody the future shape of Pentecostalism.

Lived Religion in Latin America
Lived Religion in Latin America

Author: Gustavo S. J. Morello

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0197579620

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A Latin American critical sociology perspective on religion -- Historical context -- Respondents' religious and social landscape -- Latin Americans' god -- Latin Americans' ways of praying -- Religion in Latin America's public sphere.