Abstract

RAYAGLI CARDONA, Jorge Alexander. Pluralism and traditional spirituality in Latin America. Fundamentalism and sacredness in the modernity of the subcontinent. Theol. Xave. [online]. 2013, vol.63, n.175, pp.173-198. ISSN 0120-3649.

Latin America has shown regular mismatches between its institutional secularized framework and the ancestral world-views that determine new religious proposals in the subcontinent. We could argue that there is a coexistence of multiple historical realities in the religious culture of Latin America, which constitute the perfect frame for a mismatch between the technical-scientific institutional modernization, the limited sketches of cultural modernism and the historical religious traditions of the region. This shows that secularization at any cost, promoted by middle-class sectors inspired by the enlightenment, does not automatically mean pluralization of spiritual attitudes in the culture, as it is evident in the raise of novel religious fundamentalist movements.

Keywords : religion; secularization; modernity; world-view; Latin America.

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