Abstract

GOMEZ CARIDE, Ezequiel. Religion and the construction of argentinean citizenship. Hist. educ. anu. [online]. 2014, vol.15, n.2, pp.201-206. ISSN 2313-9277.

Numerous studies regarding citizens’ identity and nation-building issues have relegated the analysis of religion, understood as a cultural practice, and its role in the shaping of the Argentinean citizen. This study examines 19th century Catholic sermons, government legislation, and Jewish Gaucho schools in its explorations. The dissertation historically argues that religious narratives are a crucial narrative in the grids that give intelligibility to pedagogical principles in the making of the citizen in the formation of the modern ‘republicanism’ and its school. In contrast to the secularization theory that creates religion as an oppositional category to republicanism, the study demonstrates the extent to which Catholic narratives inscribed pedagogical principles that are reassembled and connected to the discourses of the Argentinean republican citizen. The analysis provides a way to consider the complexity through which seemingly secular discourses overlap and connect with religious ones in the making of the modern Argentinean citizen.

Keywords : Citizenship; Religion; Republicanism.