Articles about "subordinate sectors"

Coloquios interdisciplinarios

Comment to the colloquium "Inequalities and the re-politicization of the social in Latin America" by
  • Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz
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Where do we analytically place religion? Challenges for a transdisciplinary analysis on marginalization in Latin America

  • Cristina Gutierrez Zuniga

Keywords: studies of religion, social experience, individuation, interdiscipline, subordinate sectors.

Whis commentary questions some of Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz's approaches to the possibilities of empowering subaltern sectors to resist social marginalization through religion. The author accepts the challenge of transdisciplinary dialogue and wonders in what theoretical place religious studies are placed and how the author constructs the selection of works on which he bases his argument. The main point he proposes is that religion cannot be treated as a specific section in the analysis because it is a transversal dimension of social experience. To this end, he points out several situations that offer a kaleidoscopic vision of the role of religion.