Religious freedom in the 2019 Cuban Constitution: an analysis from the Social Studies of Science and Technology
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Cuban constitution, religious freedom, religious pluralism, social studies of science and technology, theory of directed institutionalityAbstract
Introduction: This article analyzes the configuration of the right to religious freedom in the 2019 Cuban Constitution from the perspective of Social Studies of Science and Technology. Objective: To analyze how the Theory of Directed Institutionality, as an endogenous technoscientific construct, shapes constitutional dogmatics to manage religious pluralism. Method: A qualitative single-case study is employed, using the STS co-production framework and integrating tools from the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and Technological Systems Analysis. Results: The Directed Institutionalism Theory emerges as a hegemonic paradigm that produces and legitimizes a legal-institutional system designed as a technology of governance. This system prioritizes state direction, ideological cohesion, and national security, utilizing mechanisms such as mandatory registration and deliberate opacity as control artifacts. Conclusion: The dogmatics of religious freedom in Cuba constitute a sociotechnical construction that reflects the supremacy of the state's steering function over rights guarantees, generating impacts on legal certainty, effective pluralism, and the formation of aligned citizen subjectivities.
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