Modified and Validated Version of the System of Beliefs Inventory (SBI-15R) in a Sample of Inhabitants from Arequipa City (Peru)International Journal of Latin American Religions - Tập 5 - Trang 501-518 - 2021
Walter L. Arias Gallegos, Alejandro Estenós Loayza, Renzo Rivera, Ana Lucía Núñez Cohello
The present study focuses on the psychometric analysis of the Systems of Belief Inventory (SBI-15R) made by Holland et al. (Psycho-Oncology 7:460–469, 1998) after being applied in a sample of 1380 citizens from Arequipa City. The validation procedure involved the modification of the instrument, through the increase of 10 items and the rearrangement of these in three factors. The analysis of conten...... hiện toàn bộ
Bolsonaro’s Brazilian Christofascism during the Easter period plagued by Covid-19International Journal of Latin American Religions - Tập 4 - Trang 318-334 - 2020
Fábio Py
The article highlights the media actions of the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, in the face of the expansion of the pandemic of the new coronavirus, Covid-19, in Brazil. For this, the Easter week of 2020 was separated when a comparative operation of Bolsonaro with the figure of Jesus Christ, in his social networks—a tip of what we call Brazilian Christofascism—was woven. Thus, precisely in th...... hiện toàn bộ
Evangelicals and Politics in Argentina: Pentecostalism as a Constructive Framework of (New?) Political IdentitiesInternational Journal of Latin American Religions - Tập 3 - Trang 274-293 - 2019
Nicolás Panotto
This paper aims to analyze the case of the Christian Centre New Life (Centro Cristiano Nueva Vida - CCNV), a Pentecostal church in the City of Buenos Aires that is part of the spectrum of evangelical churches in Argentina, but represents a particular case within that field, in terms of theological, religious and, especially, socio-political views. The study of the CCNV will allow us to explore how...... hiện toàn bộ
Faith in Peacebuilding Assemblages in Colombia and PeruInternational Journal of Latin American Religions - Tập 7 - Trang 181-206 - 2023
Loramy Gerstbauer, James G. Huff, Vilma “Nina” Balmaceda
This article offers two case studies of faith-based organizing and programming in Colombia and Peru to better understand the peacebuilding work of Latin American evangelical Christians and how their identification as faith-based actors impacts their work. Evangelical Christians are understudied actors in the peacebuilding field, and our cases illustrate the need for careful sifting within this par...... hiện toàn bộ
A New Witch-Hunt: LGBTQIA+ State Persecution by Brazil’s Christian Far-RightInternational Journal of Latin American Religions - - Trang 1-18 - 2024
Fábio L. Stern
This paper posits that the contemporary Brazilian far-right Christian narrative casts the LGBTQIA+ community in a role akin to that of witches in fifteenth- to eighteenth-century Christian thought. It begins by tracing the historical trajectory of LGBTQIA+phobia within post-nineteenth century Christianity, highlighting the religion’s frequent collusion with far-right politics. The analysis then ex...... hiện toàn bộ
Occupying New Spaces: the “Digital Turn” of Afro-Brazilian Religions During the Covid-19 OutbreakInternational Journal of Latin American Religions - Tập 4 - Trang 250-258 - 2020
Giovanna Capponi, Patrício Carneiro Araújo
This paper intends to analyze how Afro-Brazilian religious minorities (like Candomblé and Umbanda) are responding to the Covid-19 crisis in Brazil both at a religious and political level. Drawing a comparison between the reactions of Neo-Pentecostal churches and Afro-Brazilian religions, we will describe how the pandemic outbreak and the social distancing measures allowed Afro-religious practition...... hiện toàn bộ