Non-affiliated believers and atheists in the very secular Uruguay

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Abstract

In recent years, literature in the field of religion has presented attempts to understand and characterize people who define themselves as believers but are not affiliated with any religious institution, along with those who define themselves as non-believers, or “nones”. Several quantitative studies covering this phenomenon in Latin America show clear disparities between the countries of the region. This article draws on a qualitative investigation into the way in which individuals relate to the transcendental, or live as non-believers, in the city of Montevideo, Uruguay. The objective of the article is to know and analyze those who define themselves as religiously unaffiliated. In doing so, the analysis takes into account the cultural framework of Uruguay—a country that moved the religion from the public to the private sphere a century ago, establishing a model similar to French secularism and unique within Latin America.

Original languageEnglish
Article number50
JournalReligions
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2020

Keywords

  • Atheists
  • Lived religion
  • Non-believers
  • Nones
  • Uruguay

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