The Argentinian Exception. State Building and Church Building in the Nineteenth Century

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Roberto Di Stefano

Abstract

Around 1930, Argentina was one of the richest, most dynamic and modern countries in Latin America and, at the same time, the only one on the continent that had not separated Church from State. This observation can be summed up and singled out among the many hypotheses during the last decades that have permitted the questioning of the most schematic, linear and teleological reports concerning the secularization process. This article puts forward a report concerning the double process of state and ecclesiastical construction in Argentina in the Nineteenth Century. Its purpose is to suggest keys for understanding said report that permit the comprehension of special features concerning the type of laicism that Argentina adopted at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.

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Roberto Di Stefano

Doctor en Historia Religiosa por la Universidad de Bolonia en 1998. Es investigador independiente del CONICET y profesor titular de la Universidad Nacional de la Pampa. Entre sus libros destacan la Historia de la Iglesia argentina. De la conquista a fines del siglo XX, escrita en coautoría con Loris Zanatta (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 2009 [2000]); El púlpito y la plaza. Clero, sociedad y política de la monarquía católica a la república rosista (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2004); y Ovejas negras. Historia de los anticlericales argentinos (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 2010).