Collection
Catholicism in Latin America
Catholicism in Latin America is one of the major and most fertile fields of research for Religious Studies scholars interested in the region. In spite of the fact that Catholicism is recently losing its traditionally strong grip on the continent, it still remains a formal affiliation of the vast majority of Latin Americans. Such a fact can be attributed to, from historical perspective, lingering effects of the Catholic monopoly resulting from the colonization process run by Iberian monarchies responsible for evangelization missions in the New World, and, from contemporary perspective, to the great internal differentiation of Latin American Catholicism, involving, among others, still potent popular religiosity, expanding Charismatic movements, strong traditional or even ultraconservative wings, and, last but not least, local leftist liberation theology, whose legacy is being currently spread worldwide by the first Latin American pope.The collection invites scholars of various academic fields and disciplines to share their unpublished qualitative and quantitative research about the historical and contemporary realities, expressions, diversity and transformations of Latin American Catholicims across the region, as well as its presence in the public sphere, including politics and economy. We are looking for works critically addressing theoretical and methodological issues, exploring new areas of research and suggesting new interpretative perspectives on investigating Latin American Catholicism.
Editors
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Renata Siuda-Ambroziak
Renata Siuda-Ambroziak is an Associate Professor at the Institute of the Americas and Europe, American Studies Center of the University of Warsaw. She specializes in Latin American Religions and Religiosities, focusing on the Brazilian religious market, especially on current transformations of Brazilian (Popular) Catholicism. She is the editor-in-chief of the Revista del CESLA. International Latin American Studies Review (www.revistadelcesla.com).
