Related Event Tomorrow:"Religion and Politics in Argentina from Catholic Hegemony to Plurality of the Religious Field" (Veronica Gimenez Beliveau)
Maryam J. Rutner
support of HelpArgentina
Present
Religion and politics in Argentina from Catholic hegemony to plurality
of the religious field
A conversation with
Veronica Gimenez Beliveau
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Time: 6-8 pm
Location: 66 West 12 St., 4th Floor, Room 406
The relationship between religion and politics in Argentina has
historically been characterized by the strong presence of the Catholic
Church. Marked by moments of conflict and agreement with the
government, the ecclesiastic hierarchies not only intervene in
religious matters; they also externalize their pretension of
regulating other social spaces: policy, family, economy. But the field
of beliefs has been radically transformed during the past 30 years:
the faithful have become nomads going from one religious group to
another, from a religious commitment to a social and political one and
vice versa. The Catholic Church faces the challenge of competing
religious groups, as well as of a growing current of religious
indifference in the large urban centers. This also represents a
difficult challenge for other religious institutions, which must
re-articulate the manner of relating to the public authorities.
D. Gimenez Beliveau is a researcher in Social Sciences at the CONICET,
and adjunct associate professor at University of Buenos Aires Faculty
of Social Sciences. She is a Sociologist from University of Buenos
Aires and she received her PhD from the École des Hautes Études en
Sciences Sociales (Paris- France) in 2004.
Dr. Gimenez Beliveau's research falls at the nexus of religion and
politics in the globalization era. Her most recent work focuses on
transnational sociabilities and the modalities of construction of
social community spaces inside and between national states. Her
current fieldwork is in the border area between Paraguay, Argentina
and Brazil. She is the author of "La Triple Frontera, Globalización y
construcción social del espacio," published in Buenos Aires in 2006.
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Maryam J. Rutner
Departmental Research Assistant
Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR)
School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)
Columbia University