Definition
Religious deinstitutionalization in Latin America has been generally defined taking the Catholic monopoly breakdown as its starting point. Shaped during colonial times, this monopoly enjoyed a hypothetical continuity that has been challenged with different degrees of success by secularizing liberalism since the beginning of the independence processes in the region. Moreover, deinstitutionalization has been analyzed mainly by means of analytical categories that conceive what is religious as a synonym for ecclesiastical organization. From this point of view, there exist contemporary processes related to the spiritual turn in religiousness, which is specifically linked to the so-called New Age. Characterized by the lack of central organization, these processes would account for a deinstitutionalization movement.
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The deinstitutionalization problem presents two complementary aspects: firstly, the empirical phenomenon of deinstitutionalization affecting the ways in...
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Viotti, N. (2019). Institutionalization of Religion. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Religions of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27078-4_36
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