Una mirada a las prácticas y expresiones de sincretismo religioso en Latinoamérica.

Abstract

In this article we reflect on the way in which the cultural identity of the Latin American has been consolidated from the religious syncretism, based on an academic research work; for this, Santeria is exposed, a religious practice of a syncretic nature, which takes place in the American continent and evidences the religious syncretism of it; also, a reflection on the cultural identity of the Latin American from the religious sphere is proposed, assuming, from the perspective of the philosophical anthropology, that the configuration of the reality of man can be glimpsed not only from the scientific field, but also the culture, with everything that it refers to, namely, art, language, myth and religion, makes possible the configuration of the reality of the subject and, in this case, particularly that of the believing subject.