Novas paisagens religiosas em Portugal: do centro às margens

• Autor(a) principal: Vilaça, Helena
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/didaskalia.2013.2396

Portugal continues to be a country with a largely Catholic population, with high indicators of religious belief and practice when compared with the majority of European countries. In recent decades, however, a new panorama has arisen in relation to which the study “Religious identities in Portugal: representations, values and practices” has added useful information. As well as a multiplication of the indicators of secularisation and consequently of the increase of those ‘of no religion’, there has also been a steady rise in the population of those whose religion is not Catholic. It is these that form the object of the present article, which seeks to delineate the sociological features of the religious minorities and to reflect on the new theoretical challenges to the understanding of a reality that is ever increasingly European and global: new economy, market, media and migrations constitute central elements for an understanding of the emerging landscape.