For God and Fatherland - Religion and Politics in Argentina

This analysis of the crises in church-state relations in Argentina over the last 100 years shows that the constitutionally-established Catholic Church was progressively disenfranchised by various governments and responded by struggling to maintain the institution's historic rights and privileges and to speak as the moral conscience of Argentina
This study of Argentine Catholicism offers an important perspective to the country's turbulent political history. Church-state relations show a number of crisis points whereby the constitutionally-established Catholic Church underwent progressive disenfranchisement by various governments. In response, church elites struggled to maintain the institution's historic rights and privileges and to speak as the moral conscience of the nation.
Three critical periods in church-state relations are examined: the anticlerical period of the 1880s; the rise of Perónism 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, while at the same time Catholicism, often 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

About the author

Michael A. Burdick is Research Affiliate at the Center for the Study of Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Product details

• Authors: Michael a Burdick, Michael A. Burdick
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.01.1996
• EAN: 9780791427439
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-2743-9
• No. of pages: 283
• Weight: 562 g
• Series: Suny Series, Intersections: Ph; Suny Series, Intersections: Ph; Suny Religion, Culture, and So
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education