Is Religion, Competent in Matters of Truths and Values?

 

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Verfasser: Robles, José Amando
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publikationsdatum:2018
Beschreibung:As happened in the last general elections in Costa Rica, Christian parties are emerging throughout Latin America, especially neo-Pentecostals, presenting themselves as defenders and, therefore possessors, of truths and values that they see in danger: conception of life, sexuality, human couple, etc. And it is common, even in secular media, to recognize them some competence. In this regard, the question has to be asked academically, and the present work does: do religions really have specific truths about it? And the answer is negative. In the past, under a mythical epistemology, they believed they were competent and they were. Today, under a critical epistemology, they are no longer so. Its truths and values are those of the anthropologies they assume: ethics and philosophies often already expired, without epistemological validity. Definitely, the pretension of the churches has to be submitted to debate.
Land:Portal de Revistas UNED
Institution:Universidad Estatal a Distancia
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNED
Sprache:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.investiga.uned.ac.cr:article/2228
Online Zugang:https://revistas.uned.ac.cr/index.php/rupturas/article/view/2228
Stichwort:Religion
neo-Pentecostalism
mythical epistemology
elections
Latin America
Religión
neopentecostales
epistemología mítica
elecciones
América Latina