Abstract

DIX, Steffen. The secular and religious spheres in Portuguese society. Anál. Social [online]. 2010, n.194, pp.5-27. ISSN 0003-2573.

This article seeks to redesign the borders and the overlaps between the secular and religious spheres of Portuguese society. In methodological terms, I propose an historical-sociological approach, comparing especially the reconfigurations of  Portuguese Catholicism under different socio-cultural conditions during the 19th and 20th centuries. On the basis of this analysis, I revisit the dual perspective of being either religious or secular, and try to recognize the simultaneous existence and the link between the religious and secular spheres in a modern European society.

Keywords : secularization; religion; history; sociology.

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