Abstract

MARGARIA, Paulo. The Second Vatican Council and its impact on argentinian Episcopal field. Trab. soc. [online]. 2012, n.18, pp.331-344. ISSN 1514-6871.

This article examines the impact that Second Vatican Council had on argentinian Catholic Church, with special emphasis on the Bishops field, from a socio-religious perspective that seeks to explain the complexity of Catholic field. Therefore, it seems appropriate to use the Pierre Bourdieu's notion of "field". We believe that talk about "religious field" allows us to conceive Catholicism as a dynamic social space spanned by constant conflicts and struggles carried out by groups of agents who tried to dominate the field. Again, this allows us to characterize the positions that the Council emphasized in the Argentine Catholicism, acting as a propellant and legitimizing ideas and conflicts that existed previously.

Keywords : Religious field; Second Vatican Council; Argentinean Catholic Church; Conflicts and struggles for domination.

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