Latin Americans practice reproductive management at rates comparable with Western Europe and North America, a counterintuitive finding given the region's staunchly Catholic past. This paper examines the discourses on Christianity and modernity which, together, shape much of Latin Americans' views on the issue of reproductive management. I propose that Latin Americans are prone to viewing hormonal birth control, permitted by evangelicals but not the Catholic Church, as modern, while abortion is not viewed in terms of modernity. I argue that thought about issues on which Catholicism and evangelicalism diverge is often structured by Latin Americans as the homology Catholic:evangelical:: traditional:modern, and that this homology shapes reprodu...
This article is an attempt to analyze the main religious actor in the world, the Vatican, as it is s...
This paper examines the way in which gendered violence is carried out as a way for the formal state ...
Religion is embedded in the culture of all societies. It influences matters of morality, ideology an...
This paper explores how Catholic women in Argentina use assisted reproduction technologies (ARTs), a...
This paper is the result of discussions at the 2003 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Associatio...
This work explores the modern day discourse on sexuality in Chile with particular attention given to...
This thesis focuses on the relationship between fertility and religion. In a demographic approach, t...
<p>Studies have shown that religion is an important cultural factor that may determine attitudes and...
The increasing use of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) has raised moral and ethical questio...
While state and spiritual body, the Vatican has been an opposing forcewith respect to the practice o...
All three major monotheistic religions hold that sexual activity is ethically permissible only withi...
Decisions regarding the use of contraceptive methods have been associated with a variety of social, ...
Latin American countries have some of the world's most prohibitive and contentious reproductive heal...
Cette thèse porte sur le rapport entre la fécondité et la religion. Dans une approchesociodémographi...
This thesis examines the abortion debate in Brazil within the context of Catholic and Evangelical be...
This article is an attempt to analyze the main religious actor in the world, the Vatican, as it is s...
This paper examines the way in which gendered violence is carried out as a way for the formal state ...
Religion is embedded in the culture of all societies. It influences matters of morality, ideology an...
This paper explores how Catholic women in Argentina use assisted reproduction technologies (ARTs), a...
This paper is the result of discussions at the 2003 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Associatio...
This work explores the modern day discourse on sexuality in Chile with particular attention given to...
This thesis focuses on the relationship between fertility and religion. In a demographic approach, t...
<p>Studies have shown that religion is an important cultural factor that may determine attitudes and...
The increasing use of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) has raised moral and ethical questio...
While state and spiritual body, the Vatican has been an opposing forcewith respect to the practice o...
All three major monotheistic religions hold that sexual activity is ethically permissible only withi...
Decisions regarding the use of contraceptive methods have been associated with a variety of social, ...
Latin American countries have some of the world's most prohibitive and contentious reproductive heal...
Cette thèse porte sur le rapport entre la fécondité et la religion. Dans une approchesociodémographi...
This thesis examines the abortion debate in Brazil within the context of Catholic and Evangelical be...
This article is an attempt to analyze the main religious actor in the world, the Vatican, as it is s...
This paper examines the way in which gendered violence is carried out as a way for the formal state ...
Religion is embedded in the culture of all societies. It influences matters of morality, ideology an...