Abstract
This article, product of a reflection on the contribution of Marxism to Latin-American sociology of religion, analyzes the tasks, conditions, limits and scope of sociology of religion in the socio-political circumstances of today's Latin-America. Beginning with an axiomatic definition of every form of know ledge as partial, partisan, presumptive and provisional, the author tries to disclose the advantages and consequences of that definition for Latin-American sociologists of religion en gaged in the struggle against oppression.