Abstract

RUDAS, SEBASTIÁN. LAICITY AND ANTICLERICALISM. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2019, vol.68, n.171, pp.81-103.  Epub Feb 15, 2020. ISSN 0120-0062.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v68n171.63939.

According to the dominant position regarding laicity, the later must be conceived in relation to the recognition ofpluralism and taking care not to reproduce anti-religious biases. The article defends an alternative proposal: laicity as anticlericalism, charac terized by the establishment of an institutional arrangement that strictly separates and excludes religious contents from State institutions. It argues that this concep tion of laicity responds adequately to the question regarding the place of religion in the public sphere, in the context of Latin American liberal and democratic States.

Keywords : laicity; anticlericalism; Church; State; democracy.

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