LA GESTIÓN DE LA DIVERSIDAD RELIGIOSA EN EL PERÚ

Abstract

The arrival of the Spanish in America, certainly marks a break point and in matters of beliefs, cults, existing practices, among others, in this territory. With the Spaniards, in this new "supposedly new and virgin" territory the religious diversity was aside, beating the Catholic religion as the only exclusion of all others absolutely, which was secured with the Indian Board. During the nineteenth century it was conceived in South America's struggle for independence from the Spanish crown. However, the first Peruvian constitution of 1823 and the following, formally stated that Catholicism was the only official valid in Peruvian territory. Thus, the twentieth century is the beginning of Religious Freedom in Peru, elevating it to a constitutional level. Thus, the 1933 Constitution devoted an articulated in which the right is granted to other religions in the performance of their services, leading to an outbreak of religious diversity. Moreover, during the military government of General Velasco Alvarado in 1979, the Peruvian State ceases to be religious, and relations between the Peruvian Catholic Church and the State, has as main feature the autonomy and independence of facing each other. Already in the XXI century it has advanced further in legal terms in the development of diversity and religious freedom. For example, in 2002 created the Department of Interfaith Affairs in the Ministry of Justice, State entity directed to different Catholic denominations. Religious Freedom Act (2011) was also created, promulgated on December 16, 2010, Law No.29,635. Thus, Peru is a country with deep religious diversity, the right to equality of each religious confession but should be gaining in time.