Advancing the Grounded Study of Religion and Society in Latin America

In rediscovering the interpenetration of popular culture and politics in Latin America, and thus the ways these realms mutually constitute one another, scholars have also witnessed the analytic irruption of one particular cultural field: religion. Close attention to grassroots political culture allows us to probe how people’s spiritual subjectivity and political subjectivity overlap and cross-fertilize one another. In the process, religion shapes political outcomes in ways often unintended. Two further analytic insights are discussed: First, analysis of lived religion must partially decenter religious institutions from the focus of analysis but also pay attention to how institutions shape spiritual and political subjectivities. Second, our theoretical frameworks—while rightly rejecting dominant Western forms of anti-body dualism—must preserve analytic place for a realm of human experience termed here “embodied dualism” or “experiential dualism.”

Dualism · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Political subjectivity · Politics · Realm · Sociology · Subjectivity · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society in Latin America · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development

• Blood Entanglements

  Stephen Offutt•Blood Entanglements•2023

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• The 'Church of the Poor and the Earth' in Latin American Mining Conflicts

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• Looks Like Me, Thinks Like Me

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• Entangled

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• Religión vivida y consumo religioso/espiritual

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• Decentering the Regime

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• The Rise of Charismatic Catholicism in Latin America

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• The Cristero Rebellion

  Open Access•Jean A Meyer•Cristero Rebellion•1976

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• Religious Pluralism, Democracy, and the Catholic Church in Latin America

  Frances Hagopian•Religious Pluralism, Democracy,…•2009

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• What Is the Color of the Holy Spirit? Pentecostalism and Black Identity in Brazil

  Open Access•John Burdick•Latin American Research Review•1999

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• Formations of the Secular

  Talal Asad•Formations of the Secular•2020

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• Thank You, St. Jude

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• América Latina ya no es católica? Pluralismo cultural y religioso creciente

  Open Access•Cristián P Parker•AMÉRICA LATINA HOY•2009

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• Skirting the Instrumental Paradox

  Open Access•David Smilde•Qualitative Sociology•2003

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• Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion

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• The Renaissance of Political Culture

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• The Politics of the Spirit. The Political Implications of Pentecostalized Religion in Costa Rica and Guatemala

  Catalina Romero, T Steigenga et al.•Sociology of Religion•2003

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• The American Religion

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• The Madonna of 115th Street

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• Ego-affirming Evangelicalism

  Gerardo Martí•Sociology of Religion•2010

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