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Public Call for Papers: Religion and Democracy

2025-01-06

At the end of the 20th century, there was hope for the consolidation of some democratic processes in the world, especially in the Latin American and Caribbean context. This was reflected in different advances in issues related to socio-environmental justice, the consolidation of gender equality, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, and citizen participation in political decision-making and public management. However, the 21st century has shown us that the ideological instruments of the world's dominant power structures have found new strategies to promote regressive agendas.

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Vol. 45 No. 2 (2025): Thinking/Interpreting the Bible in contemporary society: Fundamentalisms, struggles and resistances

The relationships between the Bible and culture, the Bible and politics, the Bible and society were the central motivation to discuss, in detail, the role that religious discourse has in new forms of fundamentalism. The reduction of the meaning of the texts and their use for the purposes of controlling people and communities is something that, unfortunately, has always accompanied biblical interpretation. In what way, from the exegetical discipline, can we confront this phenomenon and provide new, more humane and humanizing solutions? Here is the crux of the matter and the result of what you will find in the articles in this issue of Vida y Pensamiento.

Published: 2025-12-25

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