scholarly journals Secularities, Diversities and Pluralities: Understanding the Challenges of Religious Diversity in Latin America

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar Zavala-Pelayo ◽  
Manuel Góngora-Mera
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Multiple Secularities ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Rights

Latin America is experiencing today the greatest religious diversity in its entire history. However, it must also be noted that a large number of the growing religious minorities may be classified into types of Christianity with conservative overtones. In this paper we will suggest that the literature streams on multiple secularities in contemporary (Western) societies and religious diversity in Latin America do offer insightful perspectives yet fail to adequately convey the challenges raised by the religious across contemporary Latin America. Addressing Latin America’s historical background, we will distinguish conceptually and empirically among different degrees of secularities<em>, </em>diversities<em> </em>and<em> </em>pluralities<em> </em>and will construct with these distinctions a descriptive-normative model that can guide future analyses of secular and religious phenomena in Latin America. It is only through a comprehensive understanding of diversities, pluralities and secularities that the debates on those human rights crucial for social inclusion—from sexual and reproductive rights to gender and religious equality—can be fruitfully conducted in and beyond Latin America.

scholarly journals مسلم معاشرت میں غیر مسلموں کی عبادت گاہوں کے تحفظ کی روایت: عصری تطبیقات

ĪQĀN ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Hafiz Muhammad Naveed ◽  
Dr. Muhammad Riaz Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Great Emphasis ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Great Satisfaction ◽  
Terror Attacks ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Almost All

Pakistan is such a unique Islamic state which has great significance in regard of the application of Islamic Ideology and observance of human rights. The Muslims are in majority in this state of extraordinary political and geo-starategic importance whereas the Christians, the Hindus, the Sikh, the Buddhist, the Bahais and the Parsees are some of the remarkable religious minorities living here. These religious minorities are a symbol of the socio-religious diversity of Pakistan. In this prospect, the protection of the rights of the religious minorities is extremely necessary. The worship places of these minorities exist almost all over Pakistan. It is a matter of great satisfaction that Islam lays great emphasis on the sanctity of these worship places. Moreover, the Muslims have been taking extraordinary steps to protect these places. They have always been encouraging to build and promote such places. Even after having such a glorious background, the entire world generally and Pakistan especially is facing the gigantic dangers of socio-religious prejudices and intolerance. In this scenario, the worship places of the religious minorities are facing serious threats like terror attacks and disgrace. It is necessary to have an impartial analysis of the Islamic teachings, the attitude of the Muslim rulers and the contemporary challenges regarded to the security and development of these places. A comprehensive understanding and a lasting solution of these challenges should be sorted for a peaceful co-existence in Pakistan. This research article has been presented to comprehend different aspects of the protection of the worship places of the religious minorities of Pakistan.

Religious Patterns of Neoconservatism in Latin America

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Marco Vaggione ◽  
Maria Das Dores Campos Machado
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sexual Morality ◽  
The Past ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Rights

During the last four decades, Latin America has witnessed the political strengthening of collective actors with conflicting agendas: feminist and LGBTQ+ movements on one side, and Catholic and Pentecostal Evangelical sectors on the other. While the first two movements focus on gender equality and the extension of sexual and reproductive rights, the Pentecostal and Catholic sectors have also adopted a political identity, but with an agenda prioritizing the defense of religious freedom and Christian sexual morality. Far from being a holdover from the past, the political strategies employed by these religious sectors continue to affect public debate across much of Latin America today.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing Abortion Lawfare

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siri Gloppen
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
The World ◽  
Electoral Mobilization ◽  
The Right ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Rights

Abstract Women's sexual and reproductive rights are politicized worldwide, with the most contentious right being the right to safe, legal abortion. In Latin America, where one stands on the issue of abortion has become a central identity marker; a salient issue in electoral mobilization, and a matter of coalition building and high politics. As a consequence, legalized contestation over abortion is raging across Latin America, and indeed much of the world. This article conceptualizes this as “abortion lawfare” and develops a framework for analyzing the complex dynamics and long-term, multi-sited strategies at play in the wars over abortion. The concept of lawfare – despite and, to some extent, because of its ideological uses and connotations – serves as a useful heuristic tool for grasping these dynamics, and the lawfare typology brings out the different facets of the phenomenon in terms of actors, strategies, and arenas and provides the basis for analyzing how, in any given context, actors face multiple and shifting opportunity structures. This, in turn, influences the strategies they pursue and what is achieved.

scholarly journals The conservative uses of law: The Catholic mobilization against gender ideology

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-266
Author(s):  
Juan Marco Vaggione
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Universal Human Rights ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Universal Morality ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Rights

The term ‘gender ideology’ has become a conceptual and political tool used by various religious and secular actors who defend a legal system embedded in a sexual universal morality. Although the use of the term began within the Catholic sphere, it currently characterizes the politics of different countries that are facing a wave of neoconservative activism. The article analyzes the expansion and uses of this term by considering two main aspects: first, an analysis of its emergence as a strategy by the Vatican to combat the impact of Sexual and Reproductive Rights (SRR) on Universal Human Rights; second, a presentation of the appropriations and uses of the fight against gender ideology as part of a neoconservative movement in Latin America.

scholarly journals SEXUALIDADE E REPRODUÇÃO COMO DIREITOS DAS PESSOAS COM DEFICÊNCIA INTELCTUAL E SUAS INTERFACES COM AS POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS NA

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 467
Author(s):  
Renato Barboza Barboza
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
The People ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Rights

O presente artigo discute as políticas públicas em curso no país, nos setores da Educação e da Saúde, destinadas às pessoas com deficiência intelectual, no marco dos direitos sexuaise reprodutivos, a partir da problemática das DST/Aids. Examina a questão da inclusão social à luz da Convenção sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência da Organização das Nações Unidas, ratificada no Brasil em 2008, além de outros documentos da gestão pública vislumbrando-se a reduçãode vulnerabilidades nessa população. Aborda o conceito de vulnerabilidade na análise das dimensões individual, social e programática, quanto aos avanços e desafios na implementação de políticas e programas sociais eficazes nesses setores no cenário contemporâneo.Palavras-chave: Direitos sexuais e reprodutivos; deficiência intelectual; políticas públicas.SEXUALITY AND REPRODUCTION AS RIGHTS FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND THEIR INTERFACES WITH THE NATIONAL PUBLIC POLICIES OF EDUCATIONAND HEALTH: gaps and possibilitiesAbstract: The present article discusses the public policies of the Education and Health that are in development in the country for the people with intellectual disabilities in the context of sexual and reproductive rights, from the problem of STD/AIDS. It examines the issue of social inclusion under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the United Nations Organization, ratified in Brazil in 2008, and other official documents of public policy in the country, to reducing vulnerabilities in this population. It discusses the concept of vulnerability and analyzes the individual, social andprogrammatic dimensions, about the advances and challenges in the implementation of effective social policies and social programs in these sectors in the contemporary scenario.Keywords: Sexual and reproductive rights, intellectual disability, public policies.

scholarly journals Sexuality, Law, and Religion in Latin America: Frameworks in Tension

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Marco Vaggione
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Sexual Morality ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Religion And Law ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Rights

One challenge opened by contemporary sexual politics in Latin America is to rethink the relations between religion and law. The debate on the regulations of sexuality, reproduction or the family makes visible the complex interconnections between religious worldviews and the legal system. Particularly, how the secularization of law has been compatible with an imbrication process in which law traduces and conserves catholic sexual morality into secular regulations. The article offers an analysis of the ways in which stakeholders in conflict over sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America mobilize religion and the law to pursue their agendas. First, the article considers the main strategies implemented by the feminist and sexual diversity movements in order to overcome the power and influence of the Catholic Church on lawmaking processes. Although these movements tend to share an anti-clerical standpoint, they present a complex and dynamic construction of religion. Second, it presents different adaptions by Catholic sectors in defense of a natural sexual order. In their quest to influence state legal systems, these sectors deploy a dynamic and strategic understanding of religion and its impact upon public and legal debates. Building upon these considerations, the article contributes to the question of the complex articulations between religion and law in contemporary Latin America.

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