Bulletin #9 (Re)thinking Religion in Latin America

CLACSO Working Group on Religions and Society: Tensions, Diversities, and Mobilizations in Debate
Bulletin (Re)thinking the religious in Latin America
Year 3 – Issue #9 Religion and the public sphere: New dynamics, actors and tensions in Latin America
October 2025

CONTENT

Presentation
David Eduardo Vilchis-Carrillos

Deinstitutionalization, disaffection and religious disaffiliation: the phenomenon of 'non-affiliated' people in Chile
Fabian Bravo-Vega

Afro-Umbanda religions in Uruguay: drums that break the “secular” silence
Victoria Sotelo

Prosperity Theology: Critical Notes on its Academic Approach and Current Relevance to Debates on Pluralism
Gerardo Hernández-Gómez

Protestantism in Costa Rica and the factors that have influenced its growth since 1965
Jennifer Meza-Li

Opinions and experiences that strain Mexican secularism: Catholic Youth, sexual and reproductive rights, and intolerance based on gender and belief
Efrén González-Pérez

Artificial intelligence in conservative Christian influencers: the construction of the enemy and the reaffirmation of identity
Erick Adrian Paz-González