Los unos y los otros. Católicos, herejes, protestantes, extranjeros. Alcances de la tolerancia religiosa en Buenos Aires durante las primeras décadas del siglo XIX

Abstract

Since the beginning of the nineteenth-century, the relationship between Catholics and Protestants tended to be more fluent and intense, even in the context of a poli ti cal and religious system formally characterized by unanimity. However, the lndependence created a new scene in which the religious differences, both between Catholics and Protestants and among Catholics, turned more notorious. The way those divergent views were managed and accepted, the links between religious affiliation and nationality, as well as the emergence of a political and cultural environment favorable to tolerance and religious liberty, are analyzed in this essay.