Abstract

PREISWERK, Matthias. The classroom as the site of conflict between secularity, religious denominations and indigenization. Tinkazos [online]. 2013, vol.16, n.33, pp.163-178. ISSN 1990-7451.

This article analyses the relationship between religions and the state in the process of change currently under way in Bolivia. It focuses on the concept of secularity as it appears in the new constitution and the new Education Law. As a particular and specific case, it identifies the changes that may be made to religious education in schools. In fact, this educational practice has become a source of conflict between secular states and churches in many Latin American countries, together with sexual and reproductive rights, abortion and same-sex marriage.

Keywords : secular state; religious education in schools; secular teaching; ecumenicism; intercultural secularity; state; churches; religions.

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