*COLD War & politics, *NATIONALISM, *HISTORY of nationalism, *TWENTIETH century, ARGENTINE politics & government, 1955-1983, SOVIET Union politics & government, 1953-1985, 20TH century democracy
Abstract
Changes in Argentinean right wing-nationalist political discourse of the sixties can only be explained in relation to the international Cold War-context. Thus, some fundamental concepts of Argentine nationalist political tradition were altered by the ups and downs of the international agenda. Because of this, this paper intends to trace the transformations of the nationalist political program, starting with the discursive mutations of the ideas of "Hispanism" and "Revolution". Hence, this renewed revolutionary program -even when related to inherited ideological elements of previous nationalist generations- was reinterpreted in light of new Cold War-meanings of the concept of Revolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
*CHURCH & state, *POLITICAL participation of Catholics, *TWENTIETH century, INTERNATIONAL Eucharistic Congress, HISTORY of the Catholic Church & state, CATHOLIC Church conferences, 20TH century Argentine history
Abstract
In October, 1934, on the occasion of the International Eucharistic Congress, one million Catholics gathered at Buenos Aires to show their faith and support of the Catholic Church. Those public meetings went on for ten years, as part of a Catholic political mobilization -The Army of Cristo Rey- in times of a strong political radicalization. This paper examines the characteristics of this phenomenon, which combined in a unique way three elements: the hierarchy of the Church, Catholic activists and common Catholic believers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Published
2010
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