The Analysis of Relations Between Catholic Church and the State Toward Conceptual and Linguistic Study of Secularization in the 19th and 20th Centuries in Colombia: a Historiographic Review and a Proposal

Abstract

When thinking about the need for new approaches in the history of the Catholic faith and religion, we wanted to start from a particular bibliography in order to build a novel proposal. When reviewing some bibliographic balances, the definition of some moments of recent rupture in the Colombian case, and an attempt of synthesis of some theoretical bibliography, added to a brief approach to the Latin American historiography, were crucial to gather the findings that provide the arguments for this article. It is proposed, then, that the observation of ChurchState relations and the internal history of the ecclesiastical institution itself must be overcome in order to address the secularization problem, in a logic that allows for more global views. The contributions of the new political-intellectual history, which combine the efforts of diverse historiographical traditions, allow for a different contextual approach to the problem of the Catholic religious and its transformation during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Keywords
Thesaurus: Church-State Relations, Catholic Church, Religion, Politic Languages.
Author’s keywords: Secularization, Intellectual History