This article analyses Argentina's contemporary religious field. On the basis of a statistical study on beliefs and religious attitudes, the authors reflect on a wide range of issues. They address the consequences of secularization in Argentine society, new configurations in how people believe and practise religion, shifts in religious identification, the religious diversification process, in which believers fall off the institutional frame, and, finally, people's on religious intervention in public issues (such as education, sexual health and family planning).

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RESUMEN: Se trata de un estudio histórico y sociológico de las múltiples relaciones entre religión y política en Argentina mostrando un catolicismo que se presenta con propuestas a nivel social, simbólico y generador de identidad nacional. Se profundiza en las nuevas tensiones entre el actual gobierno peronista de Kirchner y la institución católica por el control de las creencias, los cuerpos y la memoria.ABSTRACT: The historical and sociological study of the relations between religion and politics in Argentina reveals a Catholicism that presents itself with a project at the social and symbolic level, and as provider of national identity. This is accentuated in the new tensions between the current Peronist government of Kirchner and the institutional Catholic church over control of beliefs, bodies and memory.

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R E S U M E N | Las éticas religiosas y los sistemas económicos han estado históricamente interrelacionados. De allí que no resulten una excepcionalidad las referencias al desarrollo sustentable, al medioambiente y a la ecología en las producciones religiosas contemporáneas. El artículo se propone, en primer lugar, reconstruir el debate teórico en torno al rol que desempeña la religión dentro de un sistema social. Pasaremos revista a las principales corrientes sociológicas que han profundizado sobre esos tópicos, para luego adentrarnos en el análisis de documentos religiosos -principalmente, del catolicismo-que reflexionan sobre el proceso de globalización, el desarrollo, el medioambiente y la ecología. Por último, nos detendremos en el caso del catolicismo argentino y en los modos en que su andamiaje institucional acciona sobre la economía y la sociedad en busca de socializar "otros" modelos de desarrollo sustentable.PA L A B R A S C L AV E | Religión, catolicismo, globalización, desarrollo, medioambiente, Argentina (Thesaurus) Religion, the Environment, and Sustainable Development: Comprehensiveness in Catholic CosmologyA B S T R AC T | Religious ethics and economic systems have historically been intertwined. Therefore, the references to sustainable development, the environment and ecology in contemporary religious productions are no exceptionality. The article proposes, in the first place, to reconstruct the theoretical debate regarding the role religion plays within a social system. We will review the main sociological currents that have explored these topics in depth, and then delve into an analysis of religious documents -mainly from Catholicism-that reflect on the process of globalization, development, the environment and ecology. Finally, we will consider the case of Catholicism in Argentina and the ways in which its institutional framework operates on the economy and society in order to socialize "other" models of sustainable development.