Full Description
Modernity of Religiosities and Beliefs: A New Path in Latin America From the Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century synthesizes new research on various phenomena related to religions and beliefs in Latin America. The contributors provide comprehensive analytical interpretations of Latin American spheres of religious ideas and worldviews and show that they are a key element to understanding the history of the region. Overall, this book gives an account of the whole spectrum of religious phenomena in Latin American societies, providing a "global" interpretation that will contribute to the study of political, economic, and cultural modernities in Latin America.
Contents
Part I: Beliefs and Religiosities in only One god
1. Catholicism, Faith, and Power. The Ways of "Being in The Modern World," between Vatican City State and the Nation-State Building Process in Latin America, From Independence to 1940
Esteban Sánchez Solano
2. Anticlericalism in Latin America: A Brief and Incomplete Overview
Rogelio Aragón
3. Another Religion? Not an American Church? Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) in Latin America
Genaro Zalpa Ramirez
4. Space and Periphery: Toward a Latin American Jewish Philosophy
Santiago Slabodsky and Emmanuel Taub
5. Interreligious dialogue in Argentina in the 20th Century up to the Pontificate of John Paul II: A Search for Peace, Understanding and Tolerance
Manuel Enrique López-Brenes and Roberto Marín Guzmán
Part II: "New Cosmovisions": Between Mysticism and Materialism
6. Contributions to historical studies on the diffusion of Western esotericism in Latin America
Juan Pablo Bubello
7. The 19th Century Central American Masonic Project, Mode
