Resumo: El ensayo se propone demostrar como la laicidad es sólo una de las alternativas que la modernidad presenta para pensar y efectuar la distinción entre los poderes religiosos y políticos. Reconocer esta pluralidad es particularmente útil en un momento en el cua

Abstract: This paper argues that secularity (laïcité) is just one among solutions provided by modernity in order to think and to manage the separation between religious and political powers. Taking in account for such a plurality of solutions reveals itself dramaticall

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Resumo: Neste artigo, exponho e analiso os debates em torno das pesquisas com células-tronco embrionárias no Brasil. Para tanto, me baseio, fundamentalmente, em fontes textuais coletadas em jornais e na internet, e no mais recente documento publicado pela Igreja Cató

Abstract: 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 rep

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Resumen: Las siguientes reflexiones apuntan a contextualizar analíticamente la recepción, tanto académica como popular, de la novela de ficción El Código Da Vinci, escrita por Dan Brown (2003). Desde una perspectiva académica, es posible apreciar dos tipos de reaccion

Abstract: The following remarks aim at setting in analytical context the academic as well as the popular receptions of the thriller The Da Vinci Code, written by Dan Brown (2003). From the academic perspective, we can witness two kinds of reactions to this novel: on on

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Resumo: Análises macrossociológicas contemporâneas associaram as configurações sociais do capitalismo globalizado a certa forma de sujeito corporificado, tributária das biotecnologias e afinada com a lógica de consumo. Contudo, etnografias de realidades subculturais

Abstract: Contemporary macro-sociological analysis have associated the new social configurations of global capitalism to a certain form of embodied self, dependent upon biotechnologies and tuned to consumer’s culture. Nevertheless, ethnographies of specific sub-cultura

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Resumen: El fenómeno de las apariciones de la virgen en Salta, al igual que cientos que actualmente tienen lugar en el mundo, se abre espacio a través de la conjunción de diversas prácticas: peregrinación, devoción mariana y sanación, conformando un campo religioso de

Abstract: The Marian’s apparitions in Salta, as thousands of modern apparitions in different places, are gaining importance by combining a variety of practices: pilgrims, devotion and healing. They conform a religious field of increasing relevance in Latin America. In

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Resumen: Los clérigos de la Puna de Jujuy (Intendencia de Salta del Tucumán), son los responsables de adoctrinar y evangelizar curatos rurales de composición mayoritaria indígena. En el artículo se analiza la tarea eclesiástica desarrollada a fines del siglo XVIII por

Abstract: The clerics of the Puna of Jujuy (district council of Salta of Tucumán) are responsible for indoctrinating and evangelising rural parishes in its majority of indigenous lineage. This article analyses the ecclesiastical work developed in the late 18th century

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