Creencias e increencia en el Cono Sur de América: Entre la religiosidad difusa, la pluralización del campo religioso y las relaciones con lo público y lo político

this article wants to reflect upon the current configurations of religious field in america's southern cone. a diffuse religiosity has been consolidating from the last decades of the twentieth century. this one follows scarcely institutional recommendations and it is almost self- constructed, arising in a context of cultural catholicism, in which catholic symbols are re-created by different social actors. aiming to study the character of present latin american beliefs, w will work, firstly, with the meaning of secularization from a historical local perspec tive. secondly, we will consider the transformations in the religious sphere. finally, we will expose some analytic hypothesis about the linkages between politics and religion.