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Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 4(10), pp. 922 - 935
DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.041008
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Social Discrimination of Religious Minorities in Argentina: An Exploratory Study of Religious Discrimination Applied on Jehovah's Witnesses

Esteban Maioli ^*
Department of Political Science and Sociology, Latin American School of Social Sciences(FLACSO), Argentina

ABSTRACT

Institutionalized religious discrimination forms a matrix of meanings from which it is interpreted and re-signified all social practice. This horizon of meaning, almost invisible at the level of the formation and use of common sense, makes religious discrimination in a persistent and complex social phenomenon. The impairment in the enjoyment of certain fundamental freedoms, among which is necessary to place religious freedom, is particularly significant for religious minorities, who are more likely to be subject to discriminatory social practices under their subordination against the existence of a confession or dominant religion. For some religious communities it is easier to be accepted by the social environment, at least in appearance. In the case of Jehovah's Witnesses, although it has legal recognition by the State, it is also true that the mass media convey a distorted view of their purposes and ways of life (Shammah [1]). Moreover, the discrimination of which are subject to Jehovah's Witnesses needs to be analyzed, in political terms, in the broader context of the tension between the forms of linkage between the State and the various minorities are integrated into the social fabric. Thus, the homogenization of the different identities and the formation of a "national" one, in order to concentrate diversity in unity, has been the strategy that the Argentine State has deployed from the moment of its formation, assuming the trend of the French model the laicit茅 (Donatello [2]).

KEYWORDS
Religious Discrimination, Jehovah's Witnesses, Discriminatory Matrix, Discriminatory Social Practice, Religion

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Esteban Maioli , "Social Discrimination of Religious Minorities in Argentina: An Exploratory Study of Religious Discrimination Applied on Jehovah's Witnesses," Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 4, No. 10, pp. 922 - 935, 2016. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.041008.

(b). APA Format:
Esteban Maioli (2016). Social Discrimination of Religious Minorities in Argentina: An Exploratory Study of Religious Discrimination Applied on Jehovah's Witnesses. Sociology and Anthropology, 4(10), 922 - 935. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.041008.