Perceptions about the secular State in a confessional State

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22458/rr.v12i1.3999

Keywords:

laicity, confessionalism, Costa Rica, religion, political constitution

Abstract

This article exposes the socio-legal path of Costa Rica towards its last threshold of secularization (Baubérot 2007), accompanied by the explanatory distinction of the constitutional reforms and the respective proposals for constitutional reform, linked to the confessional and secular nature of the State. Subsequently, the cultural transformations in public opinion are examined, in terms of perceptions and expectations (Friedman 2011), about the management of religion by the State, based on specialized surveys on beliefs and values carried out by the National University (Costa Rica) in 2013 and 2018, which make it possible to measure the changes in process within the imagined community (Anderson 2002) and community to imagine.

Author Biography

  • Laura Fuentes Belgrave, University of Costa Rica

    Doctora en Sociología por l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (París). Labora en Costa Rica como investigadora y docente en la Escuela Ecuménica de Ciencias de la Religión de la Universidad Nacional y en la Escuela de Sociología de la Universidad de Costa Rica (Costa Rica). Sus investigaciones abordan la relación entre laicidad y autonomía reproductiva en Nicaragua y Costa Rica, los cambios en las creencias religiosas, el desarrollo del pluralismo religioso, las prácticas docentes y las percepciones estudiantiles sobre educación religiosa, la convivencia en familias interreligiosas o interconviccionales, y los significados de la laicidad en la opinión pública

Published

2022-01-18

Issue

Section

Religión, política y moral en América Latina: cambios, continuidades y tensiones

How to Cite

“Perceptions about the Secular State in a Confessional State”. 2022. Revista Rupturas 12 (1): 83-106. https://doi.org/10.22458/rr.v12i1.3999.

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