| For God and Fatherland: Religion and Politics in Argentina Contributor(s): Burdick, Michael a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791427447 ISBN-13: 9780791427446 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - Political Science |
| Dewey: 322.109 |
| LCCN: 95003597 |
| Series: Suny Religion, Culture, and Society |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.84" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 283 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |