Post-Pope: A postcolonial approach to religious pluralism in Argentina
Post-Pope: A postcolonial approach to religious pluralism in Argentina
Author(s): Miguel M. AlgrantiSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Christian Theology and Religion, Anthropology, Social Sciences, History of Church(es), Theology and Religion, Politics and religion, Culture and social structure
Published by: EDIS- Publishing Institution of the University of Zilina
Keywords: Religion; Pope; Argentina;Pluralismus;
Summary/Abstract: In this paper I will review the impact of the designation of Jorge Bergoglio as the Catholic Pope on the field of religious heterodoxies in Argentina. From a post-colonial approach, i will consider his designation within the historical relations between the State and the Catholic Church in South America and its capacity to organize one of the most hegemonic and constitutional socio symbolic frames in which religious practices and beliefs struggle for legitimation and negotiates their position on Argentina’s religious field. In this context the concept of religious pluralism, proposed by the social sciences, operates as a device that regulates and administrates religious diversity rather than protecting it.
Journal: Dialogo
- Issue Year: 1/2014
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 129-132
- Page Count: 4
- Language: English
