Resumen

DONOSO-MALUF, Francisco. El porvenir de una des-ilusión: Hacia un examen pluriaxial de la secularización . Teol. vida [online]. 2008, vol.49, n.4, pp.799-835. ISSN 0049-3449.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0049-34492008000300012.

This article examines the topic of secularization as concept, thesis, theory, paradigm, socio-empirical process and dogma/faith, thus attempting to revise the profusión of debates which have taken place within the framework of social sciences during the last 20 years about the vitality/agony and future of these many faces of secularization. Presuming that Western Europe is an exception, Unlike the exceptional case of Western Europe, a series of empirical disconfirmations is highlighted and discussed -with particular attention paid to Latin America-that seem to undermine what has been the "paradigm of secularization". This generated and interesting dynamic between the critics and defending authors of such a paradigm, as well as a set of questions about the future of the secularization.

Palabras clave : Secularization; religión; modernity; functional differentiation; paradigm.

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