The Portuguese Catholicism as a very specific social-cultural expression
The Portuguese Catholicism as a very specific social-cultural expression
The project The Portuguese Catholicism as a very specific a social-cultural expression attempts to understand one European culture and society through its singular religious history. The principal aim is to draw up a picture of the Portuguese society, highlighting its historical and contemporary religious particularities. This study is based on the fact that the European civilization has its origin mainly in the Greco-roman and Jewish-Christians traditions, even though the individual cultures have grown through very specific history and significant cultural contacts, meetings, fusions, interactions or transnational relations, forming a quite particular collective conscience which can not be modified nor transmitted. The project intends to understand the Portuguese Catholicism as a social-cultural expression, independently of its ecclesiastical institutions. In this sense, the main aim is to understand the specific form in which a traditionally catholic society reacts in view of some social transformations which have been happening over the last few decades, marked especially by the concepts of "secularization" and "globalization".
Catholicism; history / sociology of religion
religious plurality; religious geography
The project The Portuguese Catholicism as a very specific a social-cultural expression attempts to understand one European culture and society through its singular religious history. The principal aim is to draw up a picture of the Portuguese society, highlighting its historical and contemporary religious particularities. This study is based on the fact that the European civilization has its origin mainly in the Greco-roman and Jewish-Christians traditions, even though the individual cultures have grown through very specific history and significant cultural contacts, meetings, fusions, interactions or transnational relations, forming a quite particular collective conscience which can not be modified nor transmitted. The project intends to understand the Portuguese Catholicism as a social-cultural expression, independently of its ecclesiastical institutions. In this sense, the main aim is to understand the specific form in which a traditionally catholic society reacts in view of some social transformations which have been happening over the last few decades, marked especially by the concepts of "secularization" and "globalization".