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The Church and the State in Argentina and Brazil: Knowledge, Religion and Pedagogy

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International Handbook of Comparative Education

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In Latin America, the Catholic tradition is the basis of identity, originality and unity of the subcontinent. It is a historical and cultural reality, with only one exception in the twentieth century: the leftist revolutions in Cuba and in Nicaragua.

Historically and traditionally, the relations between the Church and the State have been very close, particularly during colonial times. The expansion of the Portuguese and Spanish empires, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries occurred in the name of the Crown and of the Church. In Brazil, for example, one of the first actions when the Portuguese first landed on the coast, of what is today Porto Seguro in Bahia, was the celebration of a Catholic mass.

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Figueiredo-Cowen, M.C.d., Gvirtz, S. (2009). The Church and the State in Argentina and Brazil: Knowledge, Religion and Pedagogy. In: Cowen, R., Kazamias, A.M. (eds) International Handbook of Comparative Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6403-6_54

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