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SCIENCE AND CATHOLICISM IN ARGENTINA (1750-1960...

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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