Public Religions Revisited

Casanova, José

doi:10.30965/9783657766710_017

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“…In Latin America, religious institutions have not been disestablished in the American sense of the term. In many countries, the Catholic Church retains the status of an "official", "historical", or a de facto "national" church (Casanova 2008;Garrard-Burnett 2008;Gómez 2015;Lecaros 2019;Oro 2006). And the relationship with the state also holds true for the first non-Catholic Christians who officially came to Latin America in the 19th century.…”

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Why Study Religion from a Latin American Sociological Perspective? An Introduction to Religions Issue, “Religion in Latin America, and among Latinos Abroad”

Morello

2019

Religions

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This article introduces the Religions issue on Latin American religiosity exploring sociological perspectives on the Latin American religious situation, from a Latin American perspective. The Secularization Theory proposes “the more modernity, the less religion”, but in Latin America we see both, modernity and religiosity. The Religious Economy model, on the other hand, affirms “the more pluralization, the more religion”, but in Latin America there is not so much pluralization, and it is not easy to switch from one religion to other. Finally, the article presents a Latin American model, the “popular religiosity” one. The problem with it, is that it is mostly ‘Catholic,’ and so does not account for the growing religious diversity in the region. It also emphasizes the “popular” aspect, excluding middle socioeconomic status individuals and elites, assuming they practice “real” religion. This introduction presents a critical approach as a way to recover, describe, and understand Latin American religious practices. This methodology might be a path to creating sociological categories to understand religion beyond the north Atlantic world.

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Section: Why Do It From Latin America?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Study Religion from a Latin American Sociological Perspective? An Introduction to Religions Issue, “Religion in Latin America, and among Latinos Abroad”

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2019

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“…After several decades of critical deconstruction, we know that both religion and secularity are "modern" "secular" "Western Christian" categories, which have become globalized and now serve to classify and organize differently the religious field all over the globe (Asad 1993(Asad , 2003Beyer 2006;Casanova 2008Casanova , 2011Casanova , 2012Casanova , 2018bMazusawa 2005;Nongbri 2013;De Vries 2008). Before becoming "modern" secular analytic categories, they had first emerged with St. Augustin as "Western Christian" theological categories that served to organize the religious field of Western Christendom and the subsequent historical process of European secularization (Casanova 2014).…”

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Locating Religion and Secularity in East Asia Through Global Processes: Early Modern Jesuit Religious Encounters

Casanova

2018

Religions

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The central premise of this paper is that in order to understand the social construction of religion and secularity in East Asia today we need to take a long durée historical approach, which takes into account the colonial encounters between the Christian West and East Asia during three different and distinct phases of globalization. While most of the recent scholarly work on the globalization of the categories of religion and secularity focuses on the second Western hegemonic phase of globalization, this essay focuses on the early modern phase of globalization before Western hegemony.The central premise of this paper is that in order to understand the social construction of religion and secularity in East Asia today we need to take a long durée historical approach, which takes into account the colonial encounters between the Christian West and East Asia during three different and distinct phases of globalization. 1 The first phase of globalization, before Western hegemony, which in East Asia lasted from the mid-sixteenth-century to the late eighteenth-century, was shaped primarily by the encounters between the Jesuits and other Catholic religious orders and the religions and cultures of East Asia. Although the categories of religion and secularity had not yet acquired a stable and identifiable form during this early modern phase, those early modern colonial encounters, which are the main focus of this paper, played a significant role in the emergence of the categories in the West in the transition from the first to the second phase of globalization.The second phase of globalization, the phase of Western hegemony proper, lasted roughly from the end of the 18th century to the 1960s. It was during this phase that the categories of religion and secularity entered East Asian discourses, in and through the formation of secular nation states, contributing in the process to the reorganization of the pre-existing religious field in different directions.Starting from the 1960s, we can distinguish a third phase of globalization, which initiates what we can now recognize as our contemporary global age, after Western hegemony. From the perspective of this paper, significant for this phase is the fact that the categories of religion and secularity have been subject to all kinds of critical, reflexive, post-colonial deconstruction and that the religious field in East Asia is being transformed by newly emerging global dynamics, now affecting simultaneously the entire globe.

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“…In spite of his declared focus on the Western experience, I would like to structure my argument according to José Casanova's discussion of three dimensions of secularism and of secularization as the ensemble of historical developments leading to it (Casanova 1994(Casanova , 2008. They can be summed up as functional differentiation, religious decline, and privatization of religion.…”

Section: Notions Of the Secularmentioning

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Secularity Contested: Religion, Identity and the Public Order in the Arab Middle East

Krämer¹

2015

Multiple Secularities Beyond the West

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Public Religions Revisited

Cited by 52 publications

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Why Study Religion from a Latin American Sociological Perspective? An Introduction to Religions Issue, “Religion in Latin America, and among Latinos Abroad”

Why Study Religion from a Latin American Sociological Perspective? An Introduction to Religions Issue, “Religion in Latin America, and among Latinos Abroad”

Locating Religion and Secularity in East Asia Through Global Processes: Early Modern Jesuit Religious Encounters

Secularity Contested: Religion, Identity and the Public Order in the Arab Middle East

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