Renée de la Torre D. in Social Anthropology. Research Professor at the ciesas West. National Researcher level iii. Co-founder of the Network of Researchers of the Religious Phenomenon in Mexico (rifrem) and collaborator in its Academic Committee. Research topic: study of religious diversity in Mexico. She recently published the book Religious change in Guadalajara. Profiles and behaviors over three decades (1996-2016)., El Colegio de Jalisco/Universidad de Guadalajara, 2020. Click here here to see his other collaborations on Encartes.

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Traditionalisms, fundamentalisms, fascisms? The advance of conservatism in Latin America

  • Catalina Romero
  • Fabio Lozano
  • Joanildo Burity
  • Miguel Angel Mansilla
  • Renée de la Torre
  • Rodrigo Toniol

  • moderator Veronica Giménez Béliveau

The consolidation of conservative projects supported by political and religious actors in Latin America is not a novelty: the continent has seen advances and crises of popular governments, bloody dictatorships, violent speeches and rights expansion processes that are carried out with different intensity and decoupled temporalities in different countries. The ways of naming this trend are the subject of discussion in this section, since the naming itself is a problem: they are expressions made up of diverse sectors socially and even politically, claiming transformations of varying thickness as the context allows them. Based on these ideas, we organized our discussion around three questions, which the authors answered based on the experience of each country.