For God and Fatherland: Religion and Politics in Argentina (S U N Y Series in Religion, Culture, and Society) (Suny Series, Religion, Culture, & Society)

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This analysis of the crises in church-state relations in Argentina over the past 100 years shows that the constitutionally-established Catholic Church used to be progressively disenfranchised by more than a few governments and responded by struggling to handle the institution’s historic rights and privileges and to speak as the moral sense of right and wrong of Argentina. This study of Argentine Catholicism offers a very powerful perspective to the country’s turbulent political history. Church-state relations show quite a lot of crisis points whereby the constitutionally-established Catholic Church underwent progressive disenfranchisement by more than a few governments. In response, church elites struggled to handle the institution’s historic rights and privileges and to speak as the moral sense of right and wrong of the nation. Three critical periods in church-state relations are examined: the anticlerical period of the 1880s; the upward push of Peronism in the 1940s; and the series of events beginning with the upsurge of the revolutionary left in the 1960s. These events shaped the Argentine Church, whilst at the same time Catholicism, steadily imbued with a fervent nationalism, provided many groups competing for power the myths, symbols, and language necessary to articulate a vision for a new Argentina.

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