Religion and public space in the Uruguayan ‘laïcité'

Uruguay is an atypical country as regards the place of the religious in society. This is due to many factors dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a process that culminated in the separation of the Church and the State in 1919, along with the subsequent privatization of re...

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Main Author: Costa, Néstor da (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2018]
In: Social compass
Year: 2018, Volume: 65, Issue: 4, Pages: 503-515
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Uruguay / Public space / Religion / Laicism
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
KBR Latin America
Further subjects:B Public Sphere
B Laïcité
B Uruguay
B State
B Religion
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Summary:Uruguay is an atypical country as regards the place of the religious in society. This is due to many factors dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a process that culminated in the separation of the Church and the State in 1919, along with the subsequent privatization of religion. This matrix impregnated the Uruguayan imagination up until today; however, some changes in the traditional location of the religious in society are apparent, and some debates are quite similar to those of the nineteenth century. This article will explore the foundational bases of the model of Uruguayan laïcité, some of the main debates about it, along with the trends existing in the twenty-first century.
ISSN:1461-7404
Contains:Enthalten in: Social compass
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0037768618792816