Usually historians depict the thirties as a moment of "catholic revival" in Argentina. This revival has been understood as an effect of the political turn of the thirties that brought the military power to the government. Military and clergy were, in fact, strongly related in Argentina at that time, and the catholic revival of the thirties had too much to do with that. Nevertheless, the catholic movement had strong roots in Argentina, long before the beginning of the "infamous decade" of the thirties. This article argues that this movement had much to do with the popular culture and the social transformations that developed in Argentina while the country paved its way for modernization. Catholicism had built a strong movement long before the thirties. To explain the complex roots of this movement is the purpose of this article.
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