Patriotism in dispute: Infante expelled from Heaven and the pulpit. Religion and politics in 19th-century Chile

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Published 31-10-2016
Vasco Rolando Castillo Rojas

Abstract

The article examines the relationship between religion and politics in the construction of a Catholic republic in Chile during the xix century. My aim is to show the existence of a process of laicization rather than a privatization of the religious. That is, that the religious is still present within the broader field of politics. I study this problem through the public controversy on patriotism in 1844 regarding the thwarted funeral oration in honour of José Miguel Infante. The end of the controversy reveals that, in the Chilean case, the attempts to separate the political from the religious in certain areas of social life are the product of a State intervention, rather than of a progressive and relative loss of religion's social relevance.

How to Cite

Castillo Rojas, V. R. (2016) “Patriotism in dispute: Infante expelled from Heaven and the pulpit. Religion and politics in 19th-century Chile”, Ariadna Histórica. Lenguajes, conceptos, metáforas, (5), pp. 109–126. Available at: https://ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/Ariadna/article/view/15990 (Accessed: 21 November 2024).
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Keywords

religion, republic, patriotism, Chile

Section
DOSSIER