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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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Argentina y España
Argentina y España han mantenido a lo largo de su historia un vínculo intenso. La distancia entre ambas no aminoró la atracción mutua, cercanía que se manifestó con avidez desde los tiempos coloniales, se revolucionó con violencia durante las embestidas independentistas y fue subyugando a millones de migrantes con la promesa de tierras, bienes y sueños. Es ya un recorrido de ida y vuelta, que ayudó a construir identidades nacionales con rasgos compartidos, fecundadas por los idiomas, las letras y las culturas. Si las relaciones bilaterales son de un perfil privilegiado en el escenario internacional, esa singularidad no ha estado libre de agudas tensiones. Argentina es un país difí...
Poisoned Eden
In 1895, after enduring two previous cholera epidemics and facing horrific hygienic conditions and the fear of another epidemic, officials in the Argentine province of Tucumán described their home as the "Poisoned Eden," a play on its official title, "Garden of the Republic." Cholera elicited fear and panic in the nineteenth century, and although the disease never had the demographic impact of tuberculosis, malaria, or influenza, cholera was a source of consternation that often illuminated dormant social problems. In Poisoned Eden Carlos S. Dimas analyzes the social, political, and cultural effects of three epidemics, in 1868, 1886, and 1895, that shook the northwestern province of Tucumán...
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