Introduction. Lived religion in Latin America and Europe. Roman Catholics and their practices (original) (raw)

Lived religion in Latin America and Europe . Roman Catholics 1 and their practices

2017

Scholars in Latin America tend to agree that the religious landscape of the region is undergoing transformation. Yet, there are on-going discussions about the causes, depth, and direction of this change. There is evidence that the Catholic Church no longer holds a religious monopoly, but not much research on how Roman Catholicism is practiced today has been carried out. The Author introduces a series of papers that presents a broader qualitative, comparative study that investigates the lived religion of Latin Americans in a wider cultural context which accounts for the influences of Spain and Italy in South America.

Lived religion in Latin America and Europe: Roman Catholicism's experience in daily lives

2017

Scholars in Latin America tend to agree that the religious landscape of the region is undergoing transformation. Yet, there are ongoing discussions about the causes, depth, and direction of this change. There is evidence that the Catholic Church no longer holds a religious monopoly, but not much research on how Roman Catholicism is practiced today has been carried out. The Author introduces a series of papers that presents a broader qualitative, comparative study that investigates the lived religion of Latin Americans in a wider cultural context which accounts for the influences of Spain and Italy in South America.

Catholicism in Context: Religious Practice in Latin America

Journal of Global Catholicism, 2021

A critical problem to study Catholicism in the context of Latin American modernity, is that the conceptual tools we use to study religion were designed to understand the transformations that modernity provoked in European religiosity. Studies on the religion of Latin Americans have largely explored the religiosity of the population through surveys that measure attendance, adherence and affiliation. While some anthropologists have explored religious practices among particular groups, we do not know how ordinary, urban Latin Americans practice religion. To fill this gap, a group of researchers from Boston College, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Catholic University of Córdoba, and Catholic University of Uruguay, funded by the John Templeton Foundation conducted between 2015 and 2018 a study of religion as practiced by Latin Americans in their daily lives. We saw that the transformations brought about by modernity at the social and personal level have affected religious traditions and organizations as well as the ways in which people live their religiosity. Religious sources have been pluralized, and religious practices are diverse and occur everywhere. There are no “exclusive” secular or religious spaces, objects or times; religious practices are not circumscribed to “the religious.” This way of living religion among respondents, poses future questions for sociology and religious institutions.

Editorial — Transformations of Latin American Catholicism Since the Mid-20th Century

International Journal of Latin American Religions

This issue includes a selection of articles focusing on changes in Latin American Catholicism from the mid-twentieth century onwards caused by a variety of factors of cultural, social, political, and economic nature, which had a profound impact on the subcontinent's religious panorama. One key-element is the pluralization of the religious field. Other aspects have to do with political changes, economic turbulences, social upheavals, and cultural transformations. All these factors have reshaped the profile of Latin American Catholicism indicated by the rise of new Catholic movements, theological approaches, and religious experiences.

Religion and Daily Life in Latin America

Catholicism become the most widespread religion in Latin America.By the 1990s Latin America was responsible for 42% of the world’s Catholic population. Despite their common Catholic identity,Latin Americans also have Amerindian, African, and popular non-Christian religious traditions inherited from Spain. Even today many Catholics incorporate practices and beliefs that are not accepted by the Church, including devotions to non canonized saints, some of them portrayed as bandits (or who protect criminals). Over the past few decades, the religious map of Latin America has been further enriched by the presence of new religions, predominantly Protestant denominations. Because Pentecostalism shares various cognitive and emotional ties with African and indigenous religions, this may help to explain its popularity among indigenous inhabitants of rural areas and for those with a history in Afro-Brazilian religions.This chapter also discuss religious practices in Latin America, including miracles; different hierarchies of “supernatural” beings; reciprocity, which includes promise and sacrifice; pilgrimages; popular celebrations; and a variety of devotional practices

Roman Catholicism lived in Latin America and in Rome. The methodology employed

2017

The Author presents the constituent milestones of the methodological cycle of an international research survey called The transformation of lived religion in urban Latin America: a study of the contemporary Latin Americans' experience of the transcendent (in comparison with Southern Europe), carried out and which involved the collaboration, in a comparative study, of six universities from six different countries of which three Latin American (Argentina, Peru, Uruguay), two European (Italy, Spain) and one North American (Usa). In particular, the aim of the qualitative method used here was an understanding of the subjective sense and the point of view of social actors with the intension of bringing to light the "sociological views".

Praise of the Convert: Believe and Belong from the Catholicity of Latin America

POLITICS AND RELIGION JOURNAL, 2019

Latin America was considered for many years the main bastion of Catholicism in the world by the number of parishioners and the influence of the church in the social and political life of the región, but in recent times there has been a decrease in the catholicity index. This paper explores three variables that have modified the identity of Catholicism in Latin American countries. The first one refers to the conversion processes that have expanded the presence of Christian denominations, by analyzing the reasons that revolve around the sense of belonging that these communities offer and that prop up their expansion and growth. The second variable accounts for those Catholics who still belong to the Catholic Church but who in their practices and beliefs have incorporated other magical or esoteric scheme in the form of religious syncretisms, modifying their sense of being Catholics in the world. The third factor has a political reference and has to do with the concept of laicism, a con...