Pierre Sanchis at the juncture of the Social Sciences of Religion

Abstract

How to think the complexity of the Latin American religious field, thecombination of experiences “traditional”, “modern” and “postmodern”? Facingthis question the intervention of Pierre Sanchis turns out enlightening for itcapability of combining an embracing conception of an heterogeneous and pluralreligious field, with the perception of the detail of heterogeneities, the consistenciesand the relations that forms it. There where we choose (or where many times it isimposed to us) the disjunctive between an inner vision but out of context of thefragment or an aerial catchment of the ensemble, the texts of Sachis constitutesheuristics tools to ally the comprehension of each point of the panoramic vision.There where it is postulate the pure hybridism and the permanent mobility, wefind the possibility of cartographies measured in a subtle way.