Religion and Spirituality in the Agentic Era

This whitepaper articulates a barely analyzed dimension of contemporary agentic transformation: the place of religious and spiritual experience in societies where artificial intelligence agents progressively execute cognitive, productive and relational tasks previously considered distinctively human. It is argued that, far from eroding the social relevance of religion, the consolidation of the Agentic Era tends to deepen the question of the irreducibly human — vulnerability, finitude, meaning, ritual community, mystical experience — and, with it, the relevance of religious traditions that historically articulated answers to those questions. The specific position of Ibero-American Catholicism, mestizo popular religiosities, indigenous spiritualities and Afro-American religions is examined as unique cultural reservoirs in this new context.