Iglesia, Cultura y Estado: transformaciones y continuidades en la Colombia de los años cincuenta

Abstract

The fifties have been little studied in an integral way. The aim is to carry out an investigation of archives to determine the transformations that occurred in the educational, ecclesial and cultural aspects that marked the life of the country in the following decade.

The Catholic Church has had a fundamental role in the consolidation of the Colombian State, education and culture throughout history.

During the first half of the 20th century and, as a result of the 1886 constitution, it was present in almost all government levels and was essential in the discussion for the elaboration of public and government policies.

With the arrival of liberal governments in the 1930s and the exacerbation of violence in the 1940s, Colombia entered a process of modernization that forced all social, economic and cultural sectors to undergo profound transformations regarding their policies and their what to do.

The Church was no stranger to these changes, in the 1950s it was forced to deal with the weight of tradition and its need for change in a Colombia that was made more urban than rural by bipartisan violence. In the case of the regular communities, Dominicans, Jesuits and Eudists were actors in these transformations in the decade, through the creation of the Colegio Santo Tomás, radio literacy Sutatenza and the television broadcast of the Minuto de Dios.

Likewise, new cultural trends erupted in Colombia as a result of the influence of French Dadaism and Italian Futurism, paving the way for the consolidation of their own artistic movements such as Nadaism.

Investigating the transformations of the political role that the Church fulfilled during the 1950s in Colombia, a period of political, cultural, social and economic transition, is the objective of this project, which will be developed through historiographic and archival research, in archives specialized under a mixed descriptive and critical analysis hermeneutic approach to discourse, allowing the recognition of different agents, discourses and practices of Colombian society during the period of change and social, political, economic and cultural transformation that calls us.

This will be done with the USTA contest in alliance with the National University of Colombia. The USTA, through IESHFAZ, DHFI and the Faculty of Philosophy. La Nacional, with the Department of History.