Gubernabilidades y Tecnologias Religiosas de Gobierno en America Latina : una propuesta teorico-analitica

This paper argues that the theoretical-analytical proposal in Michel Foucault’s works on governmentality and pastoralism, can be applied to the study of politics and religions in Latin America. Taking into account Foucault’ original pastoralism and the colonial context that he did not observe, it can be argued that the colonial Catholic regime that operated from the 16th to the 19th centuries in Latin America developed a series of techno-logies (techniques and logics) for the government of individuals and populations. Questions on whether these technologies have persisted or not in the level of governmentalities in different regions of Latin America will be preliminarily answered in this text. In doing so, theoretical and methodological criteria to adopt critically Foucault’s perspective will be presented. Such a critical adaptation of the latter is proposed as a contribution to the debates on religions and government in Latin America and the larger debates on religions and politics in the 21st-century global(ized) societies