Laicidad and Religious Diversity: Themes in the debates on the regulation of Religion in Latin America

JUAN MARCO VAGGIONE; JOSÉ MANUEL MORÁN FAUNDES

Boundaries of Religious Freedom

Springer International Publishing

Año: 2017 vol. 6 p. 1 - 20

2214-5281

This article serves as an introduction to the current volume by considering two central analytic themes that run through it: a) laicidad as a political limit on religion, and b) diversity in the forms of religious identification. While these central themes do not necessarily exhaustively reflect the current state of the debates on religion and politics in Latin America, they do represent two ways in which these debates have often been thought of in the region. They are approaches that, in addition to serving as a framework for the works contained in this volume, reflect a great part of the theoretical, analytical, and empirical reflections from Latin America.