Religión, democracia y laicidad

Abstract

Religion is a constant element in people’s and individual’s lives. But there is a recent phenomenon of socio-cultural and political detachment from society and states, from authority and control. Therefore religion has to recover its social place. That requires avoiding two different versions of fundamentalism: religious (fundamentalist clergy) and secular (laypersons). Religion has a place in a democratic society when identifies itself with secularism. In this realm religion can find a privileged place as one of the institutions able to give sense and able to strengthen morality as well.