Lived Religion in Latin America Gustavo Morello

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197579639
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197579633
• Author(s): Gustavo Morello

What does the practice of religion look like in Latin American today? In this book, which examines religious practice in three Latin American cities– Lima, Perú; Córdoba, Argentina; and Montevideo, Uruguay– Gustavo Morello reveals the influence of modernity on average citizens’ cultural practices. Technological development, the dynamics of capitalism, the specialization of spheres of knowledge– all these aspects of modernity were thought to diminish the importance of religion. Yet, Morello argues, if we look at religion as ordinary Latin Americans practice it, we discover that modernity has not diminished religion, but transformed it, creating what Morello calls “enchanted modernity.”

In Latin America, there is more religion than secularists expect, but of a different kind than religious leaders would wish. Morello explores how urban, contemporary Latin Americans, both believers and non-believers, from different social classes and religious affiliations, experience transcendence in everyday life. Using semi-structured interviews with 254 individuals in three cities with shifting religious landscapes and different cultural histories, Morello highlights the diversity within Latin America, exploring societies that are understudied and examining a broad array of religious traditions: “nones” (agnostics, non-affiliated, atheist), Catholics, Evangelicals (including mainstream Protestants, Pentecostals, neo-Evangelicals), and other traditions (including Jews, Muslims, Mormons, African-derived traditions, and Buddhists

Table contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1: A Latin American critical sociology perspective on religion
Chapter 2: Historical context
Chapter 3: Respondents’ religious and social landscape
Chapter 4: Latin Americans’ god
Chapter 5: Latin Americans’ ways of praying
Chapter 6. Religion in Latin America’s public sphere
Conclusions
Bibliography

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