“El que ofrezca sacrificio a otros dioses, que no sea el Señor, será destruido por completo”: un modelo teórico para interpretar las formas de rechazo hacia la diversidad religiosa en México

The three main objectives of this work are to reconstruct the processes ofdifferentiation of Mexican religious field, describe the acts of intolerance towardsreligious minorities and develop an interpretive model of the forms of racism thatoccur in these acts. These objectives allow us to observe that, in Mexico, there is aserious problem of intolerance towards religious minorities (more specifically againstProtestant churches and groups) and that the way to handle this problem hasbeen, to date, ineffective. The results highlight that cultural racism against MexicanProtestants is institutionalized kind, differentialist, with origins of violence that areidentity (defensive) and social. To affirm this, we rely on a theoretical frameworkthat, from an interdisciplinary perspective, focuses on the concepts of “religious diversity”,“religious pluralism” and “cultural racism”. The findings indicate the need todevelop more efficient mechanisms in defense of religious diversity that have beenused to date, to aspire to build societies really based on tolerance and, consequently,in the peaceful coexistence of differences.