Abstract

DEL SOLAR, Felipe Santiago. The light against the darkness. The first confrontations between the Church and Freemasonry in Uruguay, Argentina and Chile (1857-1860). REHMLAC [online]. 2022, vol.14, n.1, pp.1-17. ISSN 1659-4223.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rehmlac+.v14i1.48598.

This paper analyzes from a transnational perspective the beginning of the conflict between the Catholic Church and Freemasonry in Uruguay, Argentina and Chile. The research hypothesis states that the debate in the public sphere allowed Freemasonry to be endowed with a secular and liberal identity that favored its growth and consolidation in the region; and the Church, for its part, was allowed to rehearse a strategy of regional resistance directed from Rome that it will later implement against the processes of secularization of the nation states.

Keywords : Freemasonry in South America; Grand Lodge of Chile; Grand Lodge of Argentina; Grand Lodge of Uruguay; Secularization of Latin America.

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