Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750–1960) : : A Study on Scientific Culture, Religion, and Secularisation in Latin America / / Miguel de Asúa.

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 col...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Religion and Society , 89
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 365 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Jesuit Science
  • Chapter 2 Catholic Enlightenment. Science and Religion in Colonial and Early Independent Río de la Plata
  • Chapter 3 Religious and Secular Spaces in Post-Independence Río de la Plata (1820–1827). From Natural Theology to Secular Science
  • Chapter 4 The “Conflict Thesis,” Darwin, and Secularising Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Argentina
  • Chapter 5 Science and Secularism: Transitional Times
  • Chapter 6 Science, Catholicism, and Politics in Argentina, 1910–1935
  • Chapter 7 Science and Integral Catholicism in Interwar Argentina
  • Chapter 8 Argentine Catholic Democratic Scientists and their Projects of a Research University (1932– 1959)
  • Conclusions
  • Abbreviations used in this book
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Places
  • Index of Subjects