Evangelicals in Democratic Chile: “clash of generations”?

Various studies point out the “social apathy” and “political indifference” of the Evangelical churches. However, their commitment with society doesn’t necessarily need to be political and develop in broader ways. All the Evangelical communities have the capacity of forming among the believers, civic habits and social responsibility: community sensitivity, organization of campaigns and mobilizations, capacity for having their own opinion. That is to say, each volunteer (religious) organization constitutes an important generator of social capital which establishes trust and reciprocal relationships among its members (Putnam), with the distinct consequences for society. The importance of studying the evangelical creators of social capital consists in the fact that they are the only social actors in Chile who are experiencing the process of a double “de-discrimination”: on the one side, the Evangelicals cease to be discriminated against as the poorest and least cultured of the country. On the other side, after the approval of the Law of Worship, they cease to be discriminated against as the cultural minority lacking in specifi c rights. Within the process of the pluralization of the Chilean religious fi led, religious actors – creators of social capital are multiplying. The churches are no longer the only participants in this process. Lately, new phenomena (interdenominational movements, NGOs, debate groups, study centers, publishing houses) are appearing which offer other ways of exercising their civic commitment. We propose that in Chile, the process of formation of an Evangelical intelligentsia is beginning, which could have an important impact on changing the identity of this religious group and on its insertion in civil society

“Primero le tienes que preguntar a Dios”: militancia partidaria, voluntad divina y fe evangélica en Chile 2019-2023 = “First you have to ask God”: Party militancy, divine will and evangelical faith in Chile 2019-2023 = “Primeiro precisa perguntar a Deus”: militância partidária, vontade divina e fé evangélica no Chile 2019-2023

Nas últimas décadas, confirmou-se que as crenças religiosas têm lugar nos campos público e político, o que levou a uma série de estudos que explicam os atores e as ideologias em questão. No entanto, apesar da contribuição dos estudos de nível macro, tem havido comparativamente pouca exploração do nível micro. Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar a relação entre religião e política, considerando o caso da militância de partidos evangélicos no Chile, a partir de uma perspectiva da religião vivida. Com isso, buscamos compreender a série de nuances, tensões e questões que ocorrem no âmbito individual quanto aos crentes envolvidos na polític

Separatismo o participación: evangélicos chilenos frente a la política

En la etapa actual de la modernidad, la religión vuelve a ser uno de los factores determinantes en la política mundial y relaciones internacionales. Los fenómenos religiosos influyen en las transformaciones culturales, en las percepciones y maneras de construir las imágenes del amigo y enemigo, lo que afecta indirectamente al proceso de toma de decisiones, elaboración de la política exterior o resolución de conflictos. Hoy en día el movimiento evangélico de Chile se consolida cada vez más como un nuevo protagonista de la sociedad civil. Tras romper la marginalidad social y simbólico-espiritual, el mundo evangélico chileno experimenta importantes procesos de modificación que afectan su identidad religiosa y sus relaciones con la sociedad, produciendo distintas formas de reacción a los nuevos desafíos políticosociales. Los imperativos de establecer una vinculación más estrecha con la sociedad y la creciente autoconciencia como una importante fuerza social y electoral, avalan por una parte, los intentos de constituirse como un nuevo actor político y, por otra, ponen al movimiento evangélico frente a nuevos desafíos prácticos y teológicos, en busca de una mayor adecuación entre su misión evangelizadora y retos de la modernidad

Evangélicos en Chile Democrático (1990-2008): Radiografía al centésimo aniversario

Desde restablecimiento de la democracia en Chile la presencia de evangélicos en la sociedades cada vez más notoria. Los hábitos cívicos que forman comunidades religiosas en sus participantes, junto con eventual aumento de su nivel socioeconómico y educacional, transformarían a evangélicos en una “ciudadanía cultural”, es decir, en una minoría reconocida,completamente insertada en la sociedad democrática y pluralista. Sin embargo, el estudio demostró que pese a una amplia labor comunitaria que desarrollan iglesias evangélicas y su valoración a la democracia, este segmento sigue siendo despolitizado y apartado de grandestemas nacionales. Es una ciudadanía que está consciente de sus derechos, pero actúa no desde laperspectiva nacional, sino defendiendo intereses corporativos, lo que diminuye su inserción en lademocracia

La embajada española en Colombia: acción y proyectos para una política en Iberoamérica (1959-1962)

This article analyses the diplomatic mission of the Spanish Embassy in Colombia during the Sixties, coinciding with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution and the consolidation of the National Front’s bipartisan system agreed in the Andean country. These events will mark my research based, especially, on Spanish documentary sources. The aim is to contextualize Franco’s policy towards Latin America in order to delve into the Spanish ambassador’s schemes in Bogotá both from the perspective of bilateral relations and with the aim of developing a broader inter-American strategy.El presente artículo analiza la misión diplomática de la embajada española en Colombia durante los primeros años sesenta, coincidiendo con el triunfo de la Revolución Cubana y la consolidación del sistema bipartidista del Frente Nacional pactado en el país andino. Dos hechos que marcarán nuestra línea de estudio, sobre todo a partir de las fuentes documentales españolas. Se trata de contextualizar las políticas del franquismo hacia Iberoamérica para adentrarnos en los proyectos del representante español en Bogotá. Tanto desde la óptica de las relaciones bilaterales, como en el diseño de sus propuestas para la definición de una estrategia global interamericana

States Of Discontent

Latin America’s recent inclusionary turn centers on changing relationships between the popular sectors and the state. Yet the new inclusion unfolds in a region in which most states are weak and prone to severe pathologies, such as corruption, inefficiency, and particularism. The first part of the chapter outlines an argument, developed at more length elsewhere, regarding how “state crises” helped drive the consolidation of three distinct party system trajectories among the eight South American countries where the Left would eventually win power. The second part of the chapter argues that these trajectories differed in three ways that likely conditioned how the concomitant inclusionary Left turn unfolded in each case: the institutionalization of left-wing parties, the occurrence of state transformation via constitutional reform, and the level of state capacity. The discussion helps highlight the central role of the state and its pathologies in both driving alternative paths of political development and in conditioning the politics of inclusion. By putting the emphasis on the state and its pathologies, we can better consider not just the sources of sociopolitical exclusion but also the limits of sociopolitical inclusion

"…before they turn us into something worse": A Postcolonial Reading of The Satanic Verses

This paper attempts to analyze Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, its structure, multiple dimensions and characters through the lens of postcolonialism, separately from the infamous controversy. The thesis consists of three chapters which primarily deal with the themes of dehumanization, migration, exile, cultural contamination and possession (both literal and imaginary) of the territory through bodies. In addition to Rushdie's novel which lies in the core of this thesis, this paper also introduces a number of other literary texts and one film, all belonging to the authors coming from different backgrounds though curiously repeating and overlapping some of the notions when it comes to the portrayal of the migrants. Whereas the introduction of the thesis could be regarded as general, giving a necessary background to the reading of The Satanic Verses and outlining the methodology, the conclusion concerns not so much the repetition of what the chapters investigate, but rather draws the final line, discusses and interprets what the characters as well as entire narrative had arrived to. Whereas "the migrant can do without the journey altogether; it's no more than a necessary evil; the point is to arrive",1 Rushdie's novel seems to continuously enable movement rather than fixity. 1Salman Rushdie, The..