Post-Pope: A postcolonial approach to religious pluralism in Argentina

In this paper I will review the impact of the
 designation of Jorge Bergoglio as the Catholic Pope on the
 field of religious heterodoxies in Argentina. From a postcolonial
 approach, i will consider his designation within the
 historical relations between the State and the Catholic Church
 in South America and its capacity to organize one of the most
 hegemonic and constitutional socio symbolic frames in which
 religious practices and beliefs struggle for legitimation and
 negotiates their position on Argentina’s religious field. In
 this context the concept of religious pluralism, proposed by
 the social sciences, operates as a device that regulates and
 administrates religious diversity rather than protecting it