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For God or Country: History Textbooks and the Secularization of Chilean Society, 1840–1890

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Allen L. Woll
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The relations between Church and State in nineteenth-century Chile remained relatively calm when compared with the tumultuous events occurring in Mexico during the same era. While the question of the role of the Church in a secular society divided both nations, it was resolved in Chile without violence or bloodshed. Although President Manuel Montt's assertion of civil authority in the ‘affair of the sacristan’ in 1856 angered the clerical hierarchy, there was little that could be done by a church of less wealth, power and influence than in Mexico. Yet, the slow erosion of colonial fueros was not accepted without clerical resistance, which delayed the constitutional reforms limiting the Church's powers in Chile until the 1880s.

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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , May 1975 , pp. 23 - 43
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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