Cultural Diversity and Religious Reflexivity in an Intercultural Chilean Parish

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ID3515927
AuthorsFelipe Orellana (0000-0002-9099-4007, Alberto Hurtado University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume12
Issue2
Pages118
Publication date2021-02-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel12020118
OpenAlexW3129996560
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited21

This research aims to analyze cultural diversity and its relationship with the personal belief in an Immigrant Parish. The discussion is framed within the topic of intercultural churches and parishes, although in a setting that has not been researched (Santiago, Chile). The research was carried out in the Latin-American Parish placed in Providencia, Santiago, and a qualitative framework was used to obtain and analyze the data. Cultural diversity is understood concerning religious reflexivity and under the idea that pluralism leads to a weakening of religious conviction, as Peter Berger argued. The theoretical framework makes the difference between the vision of Berger on cultural pluralism (pluralism inter-religion) and the viewpoint by Charles Taylor (pluralism intra-religion). On the contrary to Berger, the findings of this research showed that cultural diversity and pluralism are elements that produce a strengthening of individual beliefs

Cultural diversity · Cultural pluralism · Epistemology · Immigration · Political science · Reflexivity · Religious pluralism · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious and Theological Studies · Religious studies

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