This collection has a focus on Latin American Christianity and theologies. It is a thematic effort that has been pursued by Globethics South America Regional Programme team since 2011, thanks to a small hub of committed librarians, theologians and experts in applied ethics, who have been submitting and indexing thousands of documents in this collection. The collection contains mainly documents in Spanish and Portuguese, and makes available theological research in the context of Latin America.

The collection contains also the legacy journal of the Instituto Superior Evangélico de Estudios Teológicos (ISEDET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, i.e. vol. 1(1970)-33(2014).
See Cuadernos de Teología / ISEDET

Recent Submissions

  • Review of Ecomartyrdom in the Americas: Living and Dying for Our Common Home

    Montevecchio, Caesar A. (DigitalCommons@CSB/SJU, 2024-03-03)
  • Christianisme, nomadisme et civilisation : une longue histoire mexicaine

    Elisa Cárdenas Ayala (Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains, 2023-10-01)
    This article explores the weight of Christianity in the concept of civilization that accompanies the processes of secularization through the Mexican case. It also seeks to show this same concept takes up an experience prior to the arrival of Christianity to America, typical of the relations between the sedentary societies of the Valley of Anáhuac and the nomadic peoples, an experience that is concentrated in the term Chichimecas. The main hypothesis is that through the concept of civilization it is possible to perceive in the heart of the republic the articulation between the Christian colonial heritage and this older tradition, as well as its synthesis in discourses and political actions, particularly in the conception of both the territory and the national population.
  • El catolicismo y el deber fundamental del individuo y de la sociedad de “civilizarse”: civilización y cristianismo en los escritos de Mariano Soler

    Susana Monreal (Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains, 2023-06-01)
    In 1875 Mariano Soler returned to Montevideo, after having been ordained priest in Rome and having obtained the doctorates in theology and canon law from the Gregorian University. He became a reference for young Uruguayan Catholics gathered in the Catholic Club (1875), led the foundation of the first Free or Catholic University (1878) and the Catholic Circle of Workers of Montevideo (1885). Close to Leo XIII, he was part of the group of clergymen who “recreated” the relations between Rome and Latin America. Third Bishop (1890-1897) and first Archbishop of Montevideo (since 1897), he developed a great activity as a writer and propagandist.The relationship between “Christianity and civilization” is a recurrent subject in his speeches and writings, between 1875 and 1908, the year of his death. Conceptual constants can be detected which associate the “great work of religious and social regeneration” with the alliance between Catholic Church and “civilization”. Christianity was and had been the creator of “civilization” and its weakening in the Uruguayan society would only imply corruption and barbarism. Subtle mutations are also appreciated, related to the recovery of republican principles and of material and scientific progress, associated with “civilization”. In that sense, civilization is understood as a process of “harmonic and progressive improvement of the physical, moral and intellectual faculties of man.”
  • El Concilio Vaticano II y el ethos revolucionario en la Argentina de los sesenta-setenta

    Pablo Ponza (Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains, 2008-06-01)
    The main idea in this article is to analyze some of the political and religious effects that the theological, liturgical and pastoral renewal process of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) had over the Catholic Argentinian community. Such a process exerted an important ideological influence in the development of some rebellious political organizations during the sixties- seventies period (1959-1973). This was the case, for instance, of the Priest Movement for the Third World (MSTM) or the political and military organization of the Montoneros. They constitute two modes of expression that, in a different way and in a different degree, articulated the post-conciliar discourse together with the revolutionary and liberationist, non-confessional one that prevailed in the Third World, especially in Latin America, since the triumphant Cuban Revolution.
  • La fe no es una ideología y el marxismo no es una fe - Entrevista a Frei Betto (Sao Paulo, Brasil, octubre 2011)

    Paulo Margaria (Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains, 2012-03-01)
    According to the objective of thinking about Brazilian experience in the sixties, Frai Betto refers, in this interview, to his militancy, the connection between religion and politics, the dialogue between Marxism and Christianity, and armed struggle as an option of political struggle, providing us some tools to understand the complex connection among religion and politics.
  • Las Instrucciones para las primeras reducciones jesuitas del Paraguay, elementos normativos

    Eduardo Ibáñez Ruiz del Portal (Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca; Universidad de Extremadura, 2023-12-01)
    Las instrucciones del primer Provincial del Paraguay Diego de Torres Bollo para las dos primeras reducciones del Paraguay, en 1609 y 1610, son un instrumento normativo interno de la Compañía de Jesús para orientar el desarrollo de la misión dirigido a los jesuitas enviados a la misma. Estas instrucciones tienen un enorme valor histórico por lo que muestran sobre el papel que las reducciones querían jugar en este contexto inicial colonial del Paraguay como una experiencia que representa de manera paradigmática la tradición jesuita en su praxis histórica.
  • Christianisme, nomadisme et civilisation : une longue histoire mexicaine

    Elisa Cárdenas Ayala (Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains, 2023-10-01)
    This article explores the weight of Christianity in the concept of civilization that accompanies the processes of secularization through the Mexican case. It also seeks to show this same concept takes up an experience prior to the arrival of Christianity to America, typical of the relations between the sedentary societies of the Valley of Anáhuac and the nomadic peoples, an experience that is concentrated in the term Chichimecas. The main hypothesis is that through the concept of civilization it is possible to perceive in the heart of the republic the articulation between the Christian colonial heritage and this older tradition, as well as its synthesis in discourses and political actions, particularly in the conception of both the territory and the national population.
  • POR UMA TEOLOGIA ECUMÊNICA DECOLONIAL NA AMÉRICA LATINA

    Elias Wolff (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2023-12-01)
    O objetivo desta pesquisa é apontar caminhos para uma teologia ecumênica decolonial na América Latina. Não obstante ser positiva a acolhida da teologia ecumênica de outras latitudes, é necessário desenvolver uma justificativa teológica da causa ecumênica no continente, identificando seus desafios, possibilidades, sujeitos e perspectivas de compreensão do ecumenismo. O pensar ecumênico sofre processos colonizadores se não for contextualizado nas realidades sociais e religiosas locais. O método da pesquisa é a análise qualitativa da bibliografia ecumênica do continente, dialogando com a teologia de outras regiões. A conclusão é que a compreensão de ecumenismo na América Latina requer uma estrutura epistêmica própria, com revisão de categorias, linguagens e dos tratados teológicos nucleares da fé cristã, em relação com o pluralismo de culturas e credos existentes no continente.
  • The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity

    Zachariah Motts (American Theological Library Association, 2021-04-01)
    This is a review of The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity by David Thomas Orique, Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, and Virginia Garrard, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 632 pp. $150.  Hardback.  ISBN: 978-0199860357.
  • Interviews in Global Catholicism: Dr. Petra Kuivala

    Kuivala, Petra (CrossWorks, 2023-11-27)
    Interview with Dr. Petra Kuivala, University of Eastern Finland
  • Construir la iglesia reformando el clero. Catolicismo, Estado y sociedad en Uruguay (1860-1872)

    Monreal Cataldi, Susana; Aguerre Core, Fernando; Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay.; Hernández Méndez, Sebastián (2022-03-16)
  • Los obispos y las reformas eclesiásticas en la América hispana borbónica

    Aguirre, Rodolfo (coord.); Enríquez, Lucrecia (coord.); Ramírez, Susan E. (coord.) (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la Educación, 2023-04-27)
    Las reformas eclesiásticas emprendidas por el gobierno ilustrado de los Borbones en sus colonias han sido largamente estudiadas, con la idea de que tuvieron lugar a todo lo ancho de los territorios americanos. No obstante, ha habido matices sobre la profundidad de su ejecución o la naturaleza de ésta. Por ello, los trabajos que dan cuerpo a Los obispos y las reformas ... examinan a fondo su aplicación en distintas ciudades y territorios. Mediante el análisis de cartas, edictos y visitas pastorales, informes, misivas al rey, concilios provinciales, sínodos, procesos legales, etcétera, y una sólida puesta al día bibliográfica, asistimos aquí a la manera concreta en que los obispos llevaron a cabo sus tareas con un frágil equilibrio entre el respeto a usos y costumbres y la presión del patronato real, sin perder de vista su labor espiritual ni las contradicciones y dificultades que arrostraba ante geografías, sociedades, etnias y tradiciones muy ajenas a los horizontes europeos y los ideales jurídico-religiosos. Así, la obra nos muestra nuevos ángulos y estratos de la conformación sociocultural de la América hispana y el papel que en ello tuvieron las instituciones clericales.
  • Ayahuasca’s Religious Diaspora in the Wake of the Doctrine of Discovery

    Green, Roger K. (Digital Commons @ DU, 2020-01-01)
    ‘Ayahuasca’ is a plant mixture with a variety of recipes and localized names native to South America. Often, the woody ayahuasca vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) is combined with chacruna leaf (Psychotria viridis) in a tea, inducing psychedelic effects among its users. While social usage varies among Indigenous Peoples of South America, during the twentieth century new religious movements in Brazil began employing the mixture as religious sacrament. Additionally, various centers for ayahuasca “healing” have emerged both inside and outside of the Amazon Rainforest, frequently with the aim of helping people addicted to other substances. As interest grew, ayahuasca use in South America attracted large numbers of tourists. Use of it also began a worldwide diaspora. Due to the mixture’s ability to produce intense effects from Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a controlled substance in many countries, legal use of the tea varies even when the importation of the plants separately is not necessarily prohibited. Negotiating with various nations, religious groups such as the União do Vegetal (UDV) and Santo Daime have successfully been granted legal use of the mixture by appealing to state recognition of bona fide religious use as sacrament. Due to prohibitionist rhetoric surrounding “War on Drugs,” the political and economic hegemony of the United States has influenced legal reception of ayahuasca globally. In the United States, arguments for legally protected use of ayahuasca emerged as appeals for religious freedom, which necessarily interact with rationales for the exemption of peyote used as sacrament by the Native American Church (NAC). Such exemptions are imbricated within a long history of oppressive and genocidal conditions faced by Indigenous Peoples since the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. This dissertation examines the phenomenon of the ayahuasca diaspora in light of the long history of such doctrine, arguing that appeals to religious freedom and analogies to exempt status for Native use of peyote perpetuate a long history of colonialism inherently genocidal to Indigenous Peoples. While use of ayahuasca itself may not perpetuate such history, the politics of recognition in liberal democratic society employed to determine bona fide religious use evidences the continued institutionalized and legally instrumental impulses of eurochristian political theology, even in nations that present themselves as secular. Such an analysis of ayahuasca reveals deeply problematic tendencies affecting the recognition of religion in society, ongoing Indigenous struggles, drug policies, and drug treatment. This project is based on the premise that in order to address both the problems and the potentials of the growing ayahuasca diaspora, we must attend to the longer history of Indigenous genocide and its continued presence with respect to regimes of power in the wake of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Because my focus is on a longer historical attention to deep framing, this is not a study of the richly diverse ways ayahuasca is used by various groups. It is, rather, a contextualization based on an interdisciplinary, Critical Discourse Analysis of the emergence of ayahuasca as a global commodity and sacrament against the Doctrine of Discovery. Liberal politics of recognition and aspirations to personal spiritual growth through ecstatic experience are often underwritten by eurochristian deep frames. In the end, I argue that pleas for the state recognition and “exemption” of ayahuasca for religious use inadvertently perpetuate colonial forms harmful to Indigenous People through the politics of recognition.
  • Dignidad humana y manipulacion genética: análisis de la postura de la Iglesia Católica en la procreación asistida

    Mazzuchini Lara, Agostina; Portal, Ema; Pugliese, Magdalena; Strachan, Constanza (Educa, 2023)
    Fil: Mazzuchini Lara, Agostina. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Argentina. Facultad de Medicina; Argentina
  • La iglesia católica, la política y los medios

    Uranga De Simone, Washington Ramón (2002-09)
    La Iglesia Católica, para utilizar un término generalizado en los medios pero que después discutiremos de manera adecuada, ha retomado en los últimos tiempos gran protagonismo en el espacio político y social de la Argentina, generando también que los medios de comunicación centren su atención sobre esa institución como actor social, político y mediático. En medio de la crisis la Iglesia aparece como un interlocutor reconocido por casi todos los sectores y como una voz creíble, incluso para muchos que hasta no hace tanto tiempo la hicieron blanco de severas críticas como resultado de la acción (o la omisión) eclesiástica en tiempos de la dictadura militar (1976-1983).
 Si esto ocurre de esta manera, es también porque en la sociedad se ha producido una modificación importante respecto de la percepción que se tiene de la Iglesia y del papel que puede jugar en un momento como el que atraviesa el país. ¿Qué ha cambiado para que esto ocurra de esta manera? ¿Cambió la sociedad o cambió la Iglesia? ¿Cuáles son las variables y las consideraciones para ser tenidas en cuenta en el análisis? ¿Cómo trabajan los medios la información originada en la Iglesia? La brevedad de este texto no permitirá, sin duda, responder a todas estas preguntas, pero se intentará de todos modos dejar abiertas algunas rutas y preguntas para continuar la reflexión.
  • Los Padres del Desierto

    Tau, Luis Ángel (2022)
    Presentamos este artículo que es una transcripción de una conferencia que el doctor Luis Ángel Tau brindó el 15 de julio de 1978 en la Junta Catequística de la Arquidiócesis de La Plata, como parte de un ciclo de Conferencias sobre los Santos Padres de la Iglesia. La Fundación Santa Ana se ocupó de recopilar estas conferencias y publicarlas en escrito en una colección. Tau fue profesor de Historia de la Filosofía Medieval en el Seminario San José. Es uno de los muchos laicos que pasaron por nuestra casa y dejaron huella en los seminaristas con su sabiduría y su mirada de la realidad.
  • El Primer Congreso Mundial de Filosofía Cristiana : crónica

    Caturelli, Alberto (Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 1980)
    Fil: Caturelli, Alberto. Universidad de Córdoba; Argentina
  • Iglesia católica y eugenesia latina: un constructo teórico para el control social (Argentina, 1924-1958)

    Vallejo, Gustavo Gabriel; Miranda, Marisa Adriana (2014)
    Se abordan aquí interacciones entabladas entre ciencia y religión a través de la formulación de un saber particularmente influyente en el campo del poder, como fue el conformado en torno a una corriente de pensamiento eugénico. Nos referimos a la variante gestada desde la biotipología italiana para atender al control social impulsado por el fascismo y también por países como la Argentina donde llegó a sobrevivir en el tiempo más allá de la segunda posguerra. Esa versión eugénica, caracterizada por un encendido rechazo a cualquier acción pública o privada orientada a la esterilización humana -atento al mandato católico de no intervención sobre los cuerpos, gestión privativa de Dios- propició medidas también tendentes a acelerar una selección artificial vulnerando todo principio de igualdad humana. Tomando la postura oficial de la Iglesia católica ante la eugenesia, entre 1924 y 1958, su relación con la biotipología y la difusión en Argentina de la llamada eugenesia latina, en tanto expresión resultante de esa articulación entre ciencia y religión, se busca dar cuenta de la coexistencia en ese constructo de la identificación, clasificación, jerarquización y exclusión de individuos que caracteriza a todo planteo eugenésico, instrumentados merced a dispositivos coercitivos de índole ambiental.
  • Católicos y vida pública en América Latina

    Carriquiry Lecour, Guzmán M. (Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Derecho, 2007)
    Fil: Carriquiry Lecour, Guzmán M. Universidad de la República; Uruguay
  • A construção de uma identidade cultural religiosa afrocatólica em terras paulistas: o caso das irmandades e igrejas de Nossa Senhora do Rosário

    Pereira, Renata Baesso; Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-Campinas); Violin, Caio Felipe Gomes (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-Campinas), 2023-05-17)
    Pretende-se, nesta dissertação, investigar a formação da identidade cultural negra na 
 criação de irmandades e construções de Igrejas em honra à Nossa Senhora do 
 Rosário, além de características culturais e devocionais que são propriamente 
 católicas. Serão utilizadas nas pesquisas fontes primárias e secundárias 
 bibliográficas, as quais auxiliarão no reconhecimento de tais igrejas e irmandades 
 como contribuidoras efetivas para a criação de uma identidade própria desta parcela 
 étnico-cultural. O campo de pesquisa será o território paulista, especificamente 
 cidades nas quais foram introduzidas mão-de-obra de negros escravizados, 
 delimitando, assim, um parâmetro de semelhança na criação dessas igrejas e 
 irmandades. A partir de tal delimitação, será possível compreender, também, como 
 foi a relação da educação catequética do povo negro com o surgimento de suas 
 comunidades e a construção de suas igrejas no espaço urbano. Propõe-se, dessa 
 forma, reconhecer a importância dessas Irmandades e de seus espaços de devoções 
 escolhendo três regiões para estudo de caso: Oeste Paulista, Capital e Litoral. Dentre 
 cada região, será escolhida uma cidade como estudo de caso para maior 
 aprofundamento. Tem-se, como método, a análise do processo de criação, 
 transformação e extinção das Irmandades, trazendo, sobretudo, como um dos objetos 
 centrais de nossa pesquisa, seus patrimônios religiosos. Em seguida, ficará evidente 
 como acontece o processo de identidade afrocatólica no patrimônio cultural religioso 
 que ainda resiste nas regiões de São Paulo.

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