Religion and nation in Argentina. The problematic construction of the myth of the Catholic country

This article offers a general reading of the changes that the conceptual link between Argentine nationality and Catholicism underwent, through the analysis of the relationship between the place that the Church occupied in public life and the discourses on the past that Catholics proposed. It focuses at three historical moments: the second half of the 19th century, the Centennial of the Revolution of independence in 1910 and the first Peronist government (19461952). It tries to show that the reading of the Argentine history that the Catholics elaborated in this last context was the ideological foundation of a project of confessionalization of the State that proposed the restriction of political, civil and religious rights that non-Catholics enjoyed.