La Iglesia católica en América Latina a la hora del papa Francisco

In Latin-America the developement of religious pluralism, the consolidation of Protestant Pentecostalism Churches, the increase of society’s secularisation and the weakening of catholic hegemony is being confirmed. Facing these challenges, the Catholic Church answered since the 1980s with an institu...

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Main Author: Rodolfo de Roux
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Language:Spanish
Published: Presses universitaires du Midi 2017-06-01
Series:Caravelle
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/2244
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description In Latin-America the developement of religious pluralism, the consolidation of Protestant Pentecostalism Churches, the increase of society’s secularisation and the weakening of catholic hegemony is being confirmed. Facing these challenges, the Catholic Church answered since the 1980s with an institutional strenghtening, a larger power centralisation, a control over theological thinking but also by quelling dissident or alternative tendencies. Within that movement of “returning to the big discipline”, the recent election of pope Francis has blown the winds of the opening and renovation, but the challenges that the Church has to take up, inside as well as outside, are huge.
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La Iglesia católica en América Latina a la hora del papa Francisco
Caravelle
20th century
Latin-American
Catholic church
Pope Francis
Religious pluralism
title La Iglesia católica en América Latina a la hora del papa Francisco
title_full La Iglesia católica en América Latina a la hora del papa Francisco
title_fullStr La Iglesia católica en América Latina a la hora del papa Francisco
title_full_unstemmed La Iglesia católica en América Latina a la hora del papa Francisco
title_short La Iglesia católica en América Latina a la hora del papa Francisco
title_sort la iglesia catolica en america latina a la hora del papa francisco
topic 20th century
Latin-American
Catholic church
Pope Francis
Religious pluralism
url https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/2244
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