Religion and Politics in Argentina

Begins
 27 Feb 2008 - 6:00pm
Ends
 27 Feb 2008 - 8:00pm
Location
66 West 12th Street. Room 406
Observatory on Latin America (OLA)& Latin America Forum

  

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Religion and politics in Argentina From Catholic hegemony to plurality of the religious field The relationship between religion and politics in Argentina has historically been characterized by the strong presence of the Catholic Church. Marked by moments of conflict and agreement with the government, the ecclesiastic hierarchies not only intervene in religious matters; they also externalize their pretension of regulating other social spaces: policy, family, economy. But the field of beliefs has been radically transformed during the past 30 years: the faithful have become nomads going from one religious group to another, from a religious commitment to a social and political one and vice versa. The Catholic Church faces the challenge of competing religious groups, as well as of a growing current of religious indifference in the large urban centers. This also represents a difficult challenge for other religious institutions, which must rearticulate the manner of relating to the public authorities. A conversation with Veronica Gimenez Beliveau is a researcher in Social Sciences at the CONICET, and adjunct associate professor at University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Social Sciences. She is a Sociologist from University of Buenos Aires and she received her PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris- France) in 2004. Dr. Giménez Béliveau’s research falls at the nexus of religion and politics in the globalization era. Her most recent work focuses on transnational sociabilities and the modalities of construction of social community spaces inside and between national states. Her current fieldwork is in the border area between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. She is the author of *La Triple Frontera, Globalización y construcción social del espacio*, published in Buenos Aires in 2006. 

 

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 6-8 pm

 Room 406, 66 West 12 St., 4th Floor 

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