Deinstitutionalization of beliefs and Corporate Social Responsibility: Between neo-Pentecostalism and spirituality

JULIA EVANGELINA VELISONE; LUIS DONATELLO; VIRGINIA GALÁN

evista delCESLA. International Latin American Studies Review

Institute of the Americas and Europe of the University of Warsaw.

Lugar: Varsovia; Año: 2021 p. 245 - 264

1641-4713

This paper aims to explore the impact of certain recent transformations in the socio-religious field, in the economic and political spheres ?more specifically, those derived from the processes of religious deinstitutionalization. For these, the current literature on the subject has elab-orated at least two hypotheses: one characterizes the current scenario in terms of neo-Pentecostali-zation of the world, while the other is oriented more towards concepts such as spirituality. In this way, we concentrate on a case study that synthesizes the religious dimension with politics and eco-nomics: the field of Corporate Social Responsibility ?CSR. In empirical terms, we set out to study the first International Congress of Social Responsibility (CIRS), which took place in October 2013 in Argentina. Two results can be highlighted from our study: on the one hand, CSR involves net-works that express an area of social power that concentrates different resources. On the other hand, there is a range of values that go from spirituality to ?NGO-ism?, and that is characterized by dif-ferent ways of collective construction centered on the individual as an agent of transformation.