EL SEMPITERNO BARROCO: IRES Y VENIRES DE LA LIBERTAD RELIGIOSA EN LOS INICIOS DE LA REPÚBLICA (COLOMBIA, 1850-1900)

Abstract

The baroque, artistic style born between the XVII and XVIII centuries, also created a lifestyle that permeated the Latin American politics in the following centuries. Events in the emerging Republic of Colombia evidence this, allowing to understand the relationships between the Roman Catholic Church and the State symbolised by a key character whose influence was decisive particularly in the second half of the XIX century. This paper is aimed at doing a hermeneutic reading of the facts that lead to have that particular appreciation of a religious freedom both in the formal exchange between the Church and the State and the ideas that put political-religious events into motion at that time. It concludes with an opening of the possibility of a learning path of the lived experience.