The light against the darkness: The first confrontations between the Church and Freemasonry in Uruguay, Argentina and Chile (1857-1860)
This paper analyzes from a transnational perspective the beginning of the conflict between the Catholic Church and Freemasonry in Uruguay, Argentina and Chile. The research hypothesis states that the debate in the public sphere allowed Freemasonry to be endowed with a secular and liberal identity th...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Country: | Costa Rica |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repository: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/48598 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rehmlac/article/view/48598 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Freemasonry in South America Grand Lodge of Chile Grand Lodge of Argentina Grand Lodge of Uruguay Secularization of Latin America Masonería América del Sur Gran Logia de Chile Gran Logia de Argentina Gran Logia de Uruguay Secularización América Latina |
| Summary: | This paper analyzes from a transnational perspective the beginning of the conflict between the Catholic Church and Freemasonry in Uruguay, Argentina and Chile. The research hypothesis states that the debate in the public sphere allowed Freemasonry to be endowed with a secular and liberal identity that favored its growth and consolidation in the region; and the Church, for its part, was allowed to rehearse a strategy of regional resistance directed from Rome that it will later implement against the processes of secularization of the nation states. |
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