RT Article
T1 Ciência e religião: os debates em torno das pesquisas com células-tronco embrionárias no Brasil = Science and religion : the debates around embryonic stem cell research in Brazil
JF Ciencias sociales y religión
VO 12
IS 13
SP 37
OP 56
A1 Ranquetat Júnior, Cesar Alberto
LA Portuguese
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/178485476X
AB In this article, I expose and analyze the debates on the researches involving embryonic stem cells in Brazil based fundamentally on the newspaper and Internet textual sources, and on the most recent document published by the Catholic Church concerning new reproductive technologies: the Instruction Dignitas Personae. On the whole, two issues have emerged from this controversy: the first one referring to the embryo’s status, and the other one referring to the contradiction between the scientific view and the religious conception of the world. I try to describe such controversy with the theoretical and conceptual aid of the symmetrical anthropology, proposed by Latour, and from the sociological and anthropological reflection about the position of the religion within the modernity, which leads, necessarily, to the exploration of the theme secularization and secularism. This way, I emphasize not only the intervention of religious actors and values in this question, but also the struggle of the laity actors for the affirmation of the scientific field autonomy.
K1 Catholic Church
K1 Embryonic Stem Cell
K1 Religion
K1 Science
K1 Secularism
DO 10.22456/1982-2650.15491