Miguel Angel Mansilla He is a sociologist. Doctor in Anthropology. Director of the magazine Cultura y Religión. Research Director of the Institute of International Studies of the Arturo Prat University, Chile. He has published four books: (with Luis Orellana, 2011), The bicentennial religion in Chile. Catholics, Protestants, Evangelicals, Pentecostals, and Charismatics. Conception: CEEP; The cross and hope. The culture of Chilean Pentecostalism in the first half of the 20th century. Mexico: MANDA / CIAL-UNAM / UNAP; (2016), The good death. The culture of dying in Pentecostalism. Santiago: UNAP-Ril; (with Luis Orellana, 2018), Evangelicals and politics in Chile 1960-1990: politics, apoliticism and anti-politics. Santiago: Ril Editores. He has been a FONDECYT researcher at CONICYT-Chile since 2011. He is currently working on a project entitled “Faith moves borders. Evangelical communities, circulatory mobility and ethnic, national and religious resignification of the Andean indigenous peoples on the northern borders of Chile with Peru and Bolivia ”(2018-2021).

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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.