Diversidades

Diversidades: Perspectivas multidisciplinarias
para el estudio de la interculturalidad y el desarrollo social
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Abstract: The three main objectives of this work are to reconstruct the processes of
differentiation of Mexican religious field, describe the acts of intolerance towards
religious minorities and develop an interpretive model of the forms of racism that
occur in these acts. These objectives allow us to observe that, in Mexico, there is a
serious problem of intolerance towards religious minorities (more specifically against
Protestant churches and groups) and that the way to handle this problem has
been, to date, ineffective. The results highlight that cultural racism against Mexican
Protestants is institutionalized kind, differentialist, with origins of violence that are
identity (defensive) and social. To affirm this, we rely on a theoretical framework
that, from an interdisciplinary perspective, focuses on the concepts of “religious diversity”,
“religious pluralism” and “cultural racism”. The findings indicate the need to
develop more efficient mechanisms in defense of religious diversity that have been
used to date, to aspire to build societies really based on tolerance and, consequently,
in the peaceful coexistence of differences.
Keywords: Mexico, religious minorities, protestantism, cultural racism.
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