Church State Relations: Religiopolitics in Chile and Uruguay in the 21st Century

Author

Calley OvertonFollow

Date of Award

Spring 5-7-2022

Document Type

Undergraduate Thesis

Department

Croft Institute for International Studies

First Advisor

Miguel Centellas

Second Advisor

Jesse Cromwell

Third Advisor

Oliver Dinius

Relational Format

dissertation/thesis

Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of Church-state relations in the last twenty years with special respect to Latin America, specifically in Chile and Uruguay. In my project, I will be looking at the presidential administrations of Chilean presidents Michelle Bachelet and Sebastian Piñera and Uruguayan president Tabaré Vázquez. I will use newspaper articles from El Pais (Uruguay) and El Mercurio (Chile) to examine whether political affiliation or country history determines the activism of the Catholic Church in these countries. I argue that country history has a greater influence on the role of the Catholic Church in a country’s politics than the political affiliation of the current sitting president in Chile and Uruguay. In conclusion, this project attempts to examine the dynamics of the Catholic Church and the state in this sample.

Recommended Citation

Overton, Calley, "Church State Relations: Religiopolitics in Chile and Uruguay in the 21st Century" (2022). Honors Theses. 2642.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/2642

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