Abstract

REBOLLEDO FICA, Eunice Noemí. Liberalism and protestant asceticism in the construction of citizenship in Argentina in the early twentieth century. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2013, n.65, pp.319-340. ISSN 0120-3916.

This article is the result of research into the pedagogical and political discourse practices of liberal Protestantism in Argentina in the early 20th century. Through the source material, the monthly journal ''LA REFORMA: Revista de Religión, Educación, Historia y Ciencias Sociales,'' (The Reform: journal of Religion, Education, History and Social Sciences) run by William Case Morris, we attempt to approach the contents attributed to the moral education of this particular group, which had strong links to the powerful elites in the period of expansion and consolidation of the Argentinian educational system and its intrinsic links to the political conservatism of the oligarchic state. Even when it is possible to observe the political relationships the liberal Protestants established with the oligarchic sectors, we find that moral edification promoted by liberal protestants for the education of a citizen questioned and disputed the hegemony with a collective imagination of citizenship that was being consolidated by the 1930s, driven by nationalist and corporative liberalism with Hispanic roots linked to Catholic integralism. Following a Foucauldian perspective, we attempt to deal with the Protestant ethics present in the domination techniques exercised over others and the techniques that operated in discursive practices in order to generate rational behaviour for those who were ruled by liberal governmentality.

Keywords : Liberal Protestantism; citizenship; education; moral edification; asceticism.

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