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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Other Protestant & Nonconformist Churches > General
Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750-1960) is the first
comprehensive study on the relationship between science and
religion in a Spanish-speaking country with a Catholic majority and
a "Latin" pattern of secularisation. The text takes the reader from
Jesuit missionary science in colonial times, through the
conflict-ridden 19th century, to the Catholic revival of the 1930s
in Argentina. The diverse interactions between science and religion
revealed in this analysis can be organised in terms of their
dynamic of secularisation. The indissoluble identification of
science and the secular, which operated at rhetorical and
institutional levels among the liberal elite and the socialists in
the 19th century, lost part of its force with the emergence of
Catholic scientists in the course of the 20th century. In agreement
with current views that deny science the role as the driving force
of secularisation, this historical study concludes that it was the
process of secularisation that shaped the interplay between
religion and science, not the other way around.
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