Articles about "Catholicism"

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Cuautla # 931. Different ways of being an upper-middle-class Catholic in Mexico City

  • Hugo Jose Suarez

Keywords: Catholicism, Catholic diversity, religion in Mexico City, urban religiosities.

The present article exposes the religious orientations within an upper-middle-class Catholic family in the Hipódromo-Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City. As a result of ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews, the data is presented in the format of a free narrative that reveals three different orientations: conservative Catholicism, the search for new experiences within the ecclesial institution and the generational inflection influenced by the environment. Social. All revolving around a dynamic Catholic culture that interacts with the great orientations of the world Church and with the growing religious diversity in urban areas.