Browsing by Author "Cerda-Planas, Catalina"

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    La crisis eclesial como oportunidad: sinodalidad, mujeres y liderazgos
    (Ediciones del Pueblo, 2023) Bacher Martínez, Carolina; Cerda-Planas, Catalina
    La crisis eclesial actual se expresa de diversas maneras y, para algunos comentaristas, es un proceso que se profundiza. En dicho marco, la propuesta de una Iglesia sinodal realizada por el Papa Francisco y asumida por las diversas iglesias locales alrededor del mundo constituye un dinamismo de reforma en el siglo XXI del modelo eclesial y, especialmente, de la transformación del ejercicio de la autoridad en ella. Al decir de M. Faggioli, estamos en un momento apropiado para analizar diferentes niveles de ruptura que ha provocado la crisis en las comunidades cristianas y en la estructura eclesial. Y, por lo tanto, reconocer la oportunidad para favorecer procesos de reconfiguración del liderazgo en las comunidades en los que las mujeres puedan desarrollar una mayor incidencia pastoral. En la reflexión que proponemos a continuación, ampliamos estas consideraciones y fundamentamos la necesidad de realizar investigaciones sobre estas temáticas desde una teología pastoral con enfoque empírico.
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    Mapping youth religiosity in Santiago de Chile: contributions to the theological and pastoral reflection on youth and transcendence
    (2022) Cerda-Planas, Catalina; Silva Soler, Joaquín; Ziebertz, Hans-Georg; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Teología
    This dissertation aimed to generate new and more complex knowledge regarding youth religiosity in Santiago de Chile as a contribution to the theological and pastoral reflection on youth and transcendence. Following Van der Ven’s proposal on empirical theology, an empirical-theological study was developed, guided by three main research questions: (1) How is youth religiosity in Santiago de Chile today configured? (2) What personal and social factors influence the current youth religiosity in Santiago de Chile? (3) What contributions and questions do this new knowledge about youth religiosity in Santiago de Chile hand out for theology and the Catholic Church’s pastoral reflection on youth and evangelization? Religiosity –the guiding concept– was defined as an individual’s fundamental experience regarding vertical transcendence(s), namely, a supra-human kind of transcendence, and empirically studied among 15- and 16-year-old secondary school students, both male and female, contacted through non-confessional and Catholic schools within the big city of Santiago. Considering Glock’s, Stark’s, and Fukuyama’s multidimensional approaches, five dimensions of religiosity were explored: beliefs, events of contact, practices, consequences in daily life, and groups of references. Moreover, following an attributional approach, i.e., respecting that the experiences are “deemed” religious by the participants themselves, and the need to develop a new and more adequate instrument for the study of the topic in Chile, the “Exploratory Sequential Design” was selected, combining qualitative and quantitative research approaches. The results allowed describing in more detail how Chilean youngsters understand and experience transcendence and were, therefore, a relevant input to the until now available knowledge in Chile. They were also a valuable contribution to understanding better the current expressions of the religious dimension of human life, enriching the theological work in dialogue with “lived religion” and identifying some “problematic” issues that should be further reflected by theology. Finally, the findings also help the Church better understand the context in which it develops its evangelizing task and some clues to improving it by considering youngsters’ experience of transcendence more broadly.
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    Religious Coping, Experiential Avoidance, Self‑Compassion, and Post‑Traumatic Stress by COVID‑19: a Serial Mediation Study
    (2023) Fuentes-Ferrada, Reiner; Cerda-Planas, Catalina; Fernández, María Beatriz
    The COVID-19 pandemic has brought consequences to mental health, with religiosity being a relevant coping factor in reducing the negative impact of the health crisis. Based on a convenience sample of Chilean adults, this study sought to explore the relationship between religious coping and post-traumatic stress due to COVID-19, hypothesizing that this relationship would be mediated by experiential avoidance and self-compassion. A non-experimental cross-sectional design was used, applying an online survey to 300 adults who lived in Chile. The results show that all variables are related and that experiential avoidance (EA) and self-compassion play a serial mediating role in the relationship between negative religious coping (NRC) and post-traumatic stress. Furthermore, the results showed that religious coping, experiential avoidance, self-compassion, and COVID-19 post-traumatic stress are signifcantly interrelated. Moreover, a serial mediation was found among the variables: higher experiential avoidance and lower level of self-compassion mediate the impact of COVID-19 post-traumatic stress in people with negative religious coping. At the end of the article, the implications of the results and how these variables interact in a serial mediation mechanism that sheds further light on the relationships between negative religious coping, mental health, and adverse situations such as COVID-19 are discussed.
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    Youth religiosity in Chile: a territory yet to be explored
    (2021) Cerda-Planas, Catalina
    Although youth religiosity is a strongly developed research topic in places like the USA or Europe, in Chile, there is an important lack of knowledge in this regard, primarily due to the absence of a specialized and systematic study of it. However, some available data allows identifying how much we actually know and what is yet to be researched. In the following article, descriptive findings of the last 20 years of research on youth religious affiliation, beliefs, and practices are reported. Finally, synthesis and discussion of the knowledge achieved to date are proposed, and the selected route for further research on the topic is presented based on the results.