Instrumentalization of Religious Imaging by the Conservative Party during Colombian Civil War, 1859-1862, Antioquia case
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Abstract
This text is part of a research in the
history of Universidad de Antioquia, and
its main objective is to analyze the instrumentalization
of religious imaging of
the Catholic Church by the Conservative
Party in Antioquia, during liberal reforms
of Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera (1859-1862).
In this way, this research is based on
the analysis of political discourse of texts
produced by Colombian government, the
Conservative Party, the Liberal Party, and
the catholic church in order to understand
their rhetoric relation and to define the
most important concepts of such instrumentalization,
based on four series of the
catholic church religious imaging and their
corresponding political meaning, e.g. the
religion is transformed in a political party,
the spiritual enemy becomes a political enemy,
Christian moral becomes the ideology
of the Party, and provincialism becomes the
sacred fight of the Party