{"title":"Latin Americans’ God","authors":"Gustavo S.J. Morello","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197579626.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579626.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents the image of God respondents have. They mostly conceive of divinity as a personal being. They use relational metaphors to name it, father, friend, husband, and experience it in their regular, ordinary lives. They feel, touch, hear, and see that intervention. Dios keeps making miracles for them. Respondents’ experience of God helps them to make sense of their life circumstances (there is a plan) and pushes them outside themselves (to meet others); the call from this personal suprahuman power is a social one, one that invites them to relate with others in a meaningful way. If life is about encounters, the afterlife is about re-encounters.","PeriodicalId":411601,"journal":{"name":"Lived Religion in Latin America","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121851429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Latin American Critical Sociology Perspective on Religion","authors":"Gustavo Morello","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197579626.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579626.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Studying the interaction of modernity and religion has been at the heart of the sociology of religion. This chapter explores one of the most important explanations of this tension: secularization theory. Even when criticized, this theoretical perspective is present in debates and embedded in different methodologies in use to study religion. This chapter presents an alternative explanation of the Latin American religious landscape, inspired by the American-born religious-economy paradigm. Then the chapter considers the popular-religion approach, a model inspired by the Latin American cultural experience, which focuses on people’s practices. Finally, the chapter proposes a lived-religion approach to studying Latin American religiosity.","PeriodicalId":411601,"journal":{"name":"Lived Religion in Latin America","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128330910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Latin Americans’ Ways of Praying","authors":"Gustavo Morello","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197579626.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579626.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"What defines a person as religious or not is whether she has a relationship with a suprahuman power. If she does, many practices can help to keep that relationship going. This chapter explores respondents’ practices that include the whole body, their emotions, and many objects, places, and other persons. These practices are not necessarily prescribed by religious institutions or perceived as religious by the secular society. Because it is the “black box” that registers the connection between the subject and the suprahuman, this chapter explores in detail the practice of “prayer,” broadly understood, how people “connect,” and the role of others in that practice.","PeriodicalId":411601,"journal":{"name":"Lived Religion in Latin America","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128186823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Respondents’ Religious and Social Landscape","authors":"Gustavo Morello","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197579626.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579626.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Because people’s lived religion happens in everyday life, it is relevant to know what daily life looks like, both in the privacy of the home and in the workplace or recreation spaces. This chapter presents a contemporary overview of Latin America’s religious landscape, and also respondents’ experience of “lived modernity.” In the three Latin American cities studied, it is a challenging one. The economy is perhaps one of the biggest pending bills of modernity. The most secularized social sphere has not brought about the prosperity and security promised. The point of this chapter is that if Latin Americans experience modernity in a different way than Europeans or US citizens, it makes sense that they also experience religion differently (even if their traditions come from the United States, Europe, Middle East, or Africa).","PeriodicalId":411601,"journal":{"name":"Lived Religion in Latin America","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126995888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusions","authors":"Gustavo Morello","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197579626.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579626.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines what we learn from the religious experience of these Latin American respondents of lower socioeconomic status: religion as a relationship, and Latin American modernity as a construction that leaves room for a religious, spiritual presence. The chapter presents what respondents’ religious practices tell us about religion in general, the idea of religion as a relation, and a portrait of the Latin American religious landscape as “enchanted modernity.”","PeriodicalId":411601,"journal":{"name":"Lived Religion in Latin America","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120967191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religion in Latin America’s Public Sphere","authors":"Gustavo Morello","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197579626.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579626.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter investigates the role of religion in Latin America’s public sphere. For respondents, religion and politics share the space where power is traded. The privileged position is to challenge the economic order and to generate peaceful relations among the peoples and defend human dignity. Respondents dislike the use of that power to pursue a partisan agenda and to have a privileged voice over other persons. At odds with the laïcité project, respondents welcome religion in the public sphere when it challenges modernity to include the poor, and advocates for human dignity. Religion is cheered as a countercultural force. However, this acceptance of religion’s presence in the public sphere does not mean a resacralization of it. Respondents prefer to keep the differentiation of social functions.","PeriodicalId":411601,"journal":{"name":"Lived Religion in Latin America","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127090745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historical Context","authors":"Gustavo Morello","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197579626.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579626.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents a historical account that helps us to understand Latin America’s religious present. Latin American religious history gives us a better understanding of the Latin American cultural background. Western religious traditions (Catholicism, Protestantism, secularism, evangelism) came to Latin American with different colonial powers: Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States. However, Latin America’s religious history also shows the agency of Latin American peoples, the ability to create and recreate practices and locations for religion in the public sphere, as we can find Native and Afro traditions like Umbanda and Santería. The agency of the people, and the influence of religious figures in the public realm, have been part of the Latin American religious experience.","PeriodicalId":411601,"journal":{"name":"Lived Religion in Latin America","volume":"221 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123197005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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