NEUROCIENCIAS Y AUTO-SECULARIZACIÓN DEL CRISTIANISMO: RESONANCIAS EN IGLESIAS CRISTIANAS CHILENAS

Abstract

This article presents results of the research stage developed in Chile as part of the international research "Neurosciences and self-secularization of Christianity: A scientific foundation for religiosity?". This research aimed to characterize the way (semantics, organizations) in which neuroscientific communications address religious phenomena, the way in which they are being incorporated into Christian religious communications in some countries of Europe and America, including Chile, and their consequences for the process of self -secularization of religion. The stage in Chile consisted of detecting resonances by the representatives of Christian churches to the communications studied in foreign contexts. In spite we detected a high positive resonance, there was a significant lower acceptance of those expressions of greater self-secularization radicalism.