The Universidad de los Andes’ (Colombia) Revista de Estudios Sociales welcomes the academic community to submit articles for its special issue on “Between the Opium of the People and the Quest for Salvation: Approaches to Lived Religion in Latin America” Guest editors: Gustavo Morello S. J. (Boston College, United States) and Valentina Pereira Arena (Universidad Católica del Uruguay) Articles will be received between January 1 and February 13, 2022 Articles can be submitted in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and must comply with RES editorial and style guidelines (https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/for-authors/res/editorial-policy). All articles must be submitted through the following link: https://gestionrevistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/res/login Presentation All scientific disciplines have a theoretical perspective and a history that condition their approach to reality. The social sciences, as a product of the Enlightenment, have taken a critical view of religions. Sociology, for example, was born in the midst of the French Republic's campaign against the Church. The Republic established a secular regime, based on a specific model of separation between Church and State. In the private sphere, citizens could do as they wished, but no religious signs were to be displayed in public. For the first generation of social scientists (August Comte, Karl Marx, Emilie Durkheim, Max Weber), religion was a primitive vestige of the "unenlightened past." The Enlightenment also privileged the idea that rationalism and empiricism were the sources of knowledge. In its controversy with religious obscurantism, the social sciences argued that, rather than offering scientifically contested, rationalized and empirically tested views, religions were based on authoritatively imposed irrational beliefs about the world and life.