TO CONSIDER RELIGION: CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ITS STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURES

Abstract

This article deal with the main theoretical and methodological issues in the study of religion,
with the purpose of contributing in the analytical complexity as well as in the valoration
of the religion as a major scope of action, taking into account the re-signification of
the meanings involved in the cultural and political dynamics of present societies.To achieve
this, it takes a double differentiation. On the one hand, theoretical and philosophical
positions that implicate thinking about religion as a phenomenon ora experience. On the
other, mainstreams of religion studies in the twentieth century.