Modernity of Religiosities and Beliefs

A New Path in Latin America from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century

Pablo Alberto Baisotti, Ricardo Martínez Esquivel

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978779785
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History

Modernity of Religiosities and Beliefs: A New Path in Latin America From the Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century synthesizes new research on various phenomena related to religions and beliefs in Latin America. The contributors provide comprehensive analytical interpretations of Latin American spheres of religious ideas and worldviews and show that they are a key element to understanding the history of the region. Overall, this book gives an account of the whole spectrum of religious phenomena in Latin American societies, providing a "global" interpretation that will contribute to the study of political, economic, and cultural modernities in Latin America.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I: Beliefs and Religiosities in Only One God
• Chapter 1: Catholicism, Faith, and Power : The Ways of “Being in The Modern World,” between Vatican City State and the Nation-State Building Process in Latin America, From Independence to 1940
• Chapter 2: Anticlericalism in Latin America: A Brief and Incomplete Overview
• Chapter 3: Another Religion? Not an American Church?: Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) in Latin America
• Chapter 4: Space and Periphery: Toward a Latin American Jewish Philosophy1
• Chapter 5: Interreligious Dialogue in Argentina in the Twentieth Century Up to the Pontificate of John Paul II: A Search for Peace, Understanding, and Tolerance
• Part II: “New Cosmovisions”
• Chapter 6: Contributions to Historical Studies on the Diffusion of Western Esotericism in Latin America
• Chapter 7: The Nineteenth-Century Central American Masonic Project, Modernity, and the Catholic Church
• Chapter 8: Theosophical Development in the Pan-Hispanic World (1890–1930)
• Chapter 9: Spiritism in Latin America at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and México
• Chapter 10: Manifestations of Commercialized Buddhism in Latin America: A Systematic Approach
• Chapter 11: The Cult of Personality as a Quasi-Religion: Latin American Presidents and Dictators (1930–2013)
• Chapter 12: An Approach to Compatibility between Socialist Governments and Christianity in Latin America
• Index
• About the Authors