Browsing by Author "Neckelmann, Maureen"

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    Continuity and Change of Religious Affiliation in Contexts of Rapid Transformations: The Chilean 1938–1963 Generation
    (2024) Biehl Lundberg, Andrés; Neckelmann, Maureen
    This article explores the religious trajectories of individuals born between 1938 and 1963 in Santiago, Chile, a generation that witnessed significant social and political transformations. Using survey data and a life history calendar from a representative sample of 792 individuals, we applied descriptive statistics, sequence analysis, and logit multivariate models to assess the factors driving religious persistence and change over their lifetimes. Chile provides a unique case study of Evangelical and Pentecostal growth due to the rapid expansion of these movements during the 1960s and 1970s. We examine the role of economic modernization and family religious transmission in shaping religious identification. Our findings reveal limited religious pluralism within a broader framework of stability: religious identities formed in youth remained relatively fixed, with some conversions to Evangelism from Catholicism later in life. These results challenge two common assumptions in the literature: that religious identity is primarily fixed in childhood, and that all Chilean cohorts have experienced steady secularization in recent decades.
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    ¿Cuánto aporta la religión a la sociedad civil? Una mirada institucional
    (2022) Imbarack Dagach, Patricia; Neckelmann, Maureen; Celis Brunet, Ana María
    El presente artículo se orienta a avanzar en la comprensión del fenómeno religioso y su contribución a la sociedad chilena. Considerando los procesos de secularización y cambio religioso en Chile, y especialmente en el contexto de la discusión constitucional, resulta fundamental identificar y valorar el aporte de las instituciones religiosas a la sociedad chilena, para así colaborar en la reflexión sobre el lugar de la religión en una sociedad en transformación. Este artículo presenta un panorama del tema, analizando empíricamente el aporte de organizaciones de distintas denominaciones religiosas a distintos ámbitos de la sociedad civil. Los hallazgos de este estudio permiten ilustrar que las instituciones religiosas y organizaciones basadas en la fe participan de distintos ámbitos de los denominados servicios sociales y educacionales.
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    Descubriendo una religiosidad de santuario: Reflexiones sobre la importancia de los santuarios religiosos en la religiosidad popular latinoamericana
    (2024) Vives Sepúlveda, Lorenzo Enrique; Biehl Lundberg, Andrés; Neckelmann, Maureen; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Sociología
    Esta tesis busca comprender la importancia de los santuarios religiosos en la religiosidad popular latinoamericana. Utilizando como caso de estudio al santuario de Lo Vásquez, se realiza un acercamiento etnográfico que combina la realización de 22 entrevistas en profundidad en conjunto con observación etnográfica y fotografías que permiten una mejor interpretación del campo. Utilizando las miradas provenientes de los estudios de religión popular y religión vivida, se busca profundizar en el estudio de santuarios religiosos, incorporando aquellas miradas de la religiosidad popular y religión vivida, como la importancia de la materialidad, sensaciones y emociones, que han sido poco desarrolladas por los estudios de la religión. Así, el fenómeno religioso se observa desde lo que De la torre (2012) denomina como una religiosidad “entre-medio”, lo que permite a esta tesis estudiar a los santuarios en una mayor y más profunda complejidad.Para responder a la pregunta de investigación, esta tesis comienza con una descripción densa de la fiesta del santuario de Lo Vásquez. Luego, se analiza qué tipos de religiosidades están presentes en Lo Vásquez y cómo se configura el entramado religioso del santuario. Se encontró que hay dos tipos de religiosidades presentes, a saber, una religiosidad de templo, asociada a una piedad de templo en la que los sacramentos, la asistencia a misa y los valores cristianos tienen una importancia de primer orden; y una religiosidad de culto, en la que la experiencia del sacrificio y el simbolismo son constitutivas de este tipo de religiosidad. Estos dos tipos de religiosidades logran convivir en el santuario gracias a la mediación eclesial. Por último, para comprender la importancia de los santuarios religiosos, utilizo lo que denomino “religiosidad de santuario”, una manera de agrupar una serie de vivencias en la vida de los fieles, en donde la asistencia a un santuario marca para siempre la trayectoria religiosa de las personas.
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    Evolution of confessional schools in Chile's changing and challenging environment: 2012-2020
    (2023) Madero, Cristobal; Imbarack, Patricia; Neckelmann, Maureen; Celis, Ana Maria
    The process of modernization in Chile during the last decades of the 20th century, accelerated a decoupling between society and the Catholic religion, while a more diverse religious panorama emerged in the country. Due to the historical importance of confessional schools as religious-based social organizations, and the lack of literature regarding their transformation during the last ten years, we study the evolution of such schools in Chile. Based on quantitative secondary data from the Ministry of Education, we aim to explain trends in the number and enrolment in confessional schools in the last decade based upon a New Institutionalist theoretical framework.
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    "I wanted to have a Christian family": Affinities Between Religiosity and Family Styles Among Catholics and Evangelicals in a Low-Income Neighborhood in Santiago
    (2023) Neckelmann, Maureen; Araos, Consuelo; Siles, Catalina
    This article explores the relationship between religiosity-as experiential and practical religious involvement-and family styles-as effective kinship expectations and configurations. We begin by identifying three gaps and one risk in the previous literature: excessive focus on (Evangelical) conversion; the paucity of comparative Catholic/Evangelical studies; the absence of an extended family and intergenerational approach; and, although to a lesser extent, a risk of conflation of the religious phenomenon. Based on ethnographic observations and interviews conducted in a low-income neighborhood in Santiago, we investigated native Catholic and Evangelical individuals and couples with similar levels of religiosity and socioeconomic status. We have observed two contrasting family styles. While among Catholics, we found a deep appreciation of intergenerational solidarity with a matrifocal bias, with a secondary importance on the marital relationship; among Evangelicals, we observed a strong conjugality and relative relegation of intergenerational relationships. We explore these results using the lens of "affinities" between religious and family spheres, close to Max Weber's classic concept of elective affinities. Evangelical religiosity produces solid boundaries with the secular world, including the influence of contextual family culture and non-nuclear kin, combined with an emphasis on individual autonomy and responsibility, which correlates with the notion of conjugality as an elective bond. Catholic religiosity is instead much more tolerant of the secular world, allowing a contextual family culture to permeate family configurations. The Catholic emphasis on Grace as an unconditional and gratuitous divine act, combined with popular devotion to Mary, reinforces the centrality of matrifocal intergenerational ties.
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    Pilgrimage ‘in between’: Religious pilgrims in main Chilean shrines
    (SAGE Publications, 2025) Neckelmann, Maureen; Valenzuela Carvallo, Eduardo; Aranis Soto, Daniela
    Drawing on interviews and observation conducted at three shrines across Chile, this article examines the motivations of pilgrims in the context of the persistent vitality of religious pilgrimage in the country. While the literature on religious change in Latin America has focused on the rise of Evangelical pluralism or the increasing religious disaffiliation, this article explores the reasons behind the continuity of popular Catholicism in a changing context. Our findings reveal that, while Chilean pilgrims demonstrate motivations beyond institutionalized religion, their ties to familial community and focus on reaching a destination moderate the journey’s centrality, diverging from post-secular pilgrimage. Both the manda (religious vow) and custom integrate pilgrimage within a framework of religious obligation tied closely to familial community, thus challenging its liminoid character based on the description of pilgrimage as a journey, as well as its perceived features of voluntariness and individual autonomy.