Dios y el Estado: Dimensiones culturales del desarrollo político e institucional de América Latina
In Latin America, there is a prevailing providential vision of God, reflected in the growing impact of Pentecostal and charismatic Christian sects which generate a pragmatic and passive political culture, tolerant of inequality and injustice because they are regarded as a product of God¿s will. This...
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| Published in: | Nueva sociedad 2007-07, Vol.210 (210), p.78-94 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | spa |
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| Summary: | In Latin America, there is a prevailing providential vision of God, reflected in the growing impact of Pentecostal and charismatic Christian sects which generate a pragmatic and passive political culture, tolerant of inequality and injustice because they are regarded as a product of God¿s will. This hardly squares with the modern State which is designed to balance the instrumental rationality of the market with basic democratic values. The social sciences need to abandon the idea that Latin American societies are secularized and assume a more realistic approach which recognizes the subjective dimensions that accompany the formation of the State. En América Latina predomina una visión providencialista de Dios, que se expresa en el auge del cristianismo pentecostal y carismático y que ha generado una cultura política pragmática-resignada, que tolera la desigualdad y la injusticia como mandatos divinos. Esto es incongruente con un Estado moderno que debe equilibrar la racionalidad instrumental del mercado con los valores sustantivos de la democracia. Las ciencias sociales deben dejar de lado la idea de que las sociedades latinoamericanas se encuentran secularizadas para asumir una visión más realista, que contemple la dimensión subjetiva de los procesos de formación del Estado. |
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| ISSN: | 0251-3552 |