Abstract

MAURO, Diego. Catholic crowds, mass society and politics in Argentina. Reflections on the National Eucharistic Congress 1940. Secuencia [online]. 2017, n.97, pp.200-231. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i97.1452.

The article discusses the formation of Catholic crowds during the National Eucharistic Congress of 1940, held in the city of Santa Fe (Argentina) from a cultural perspective that emphasizes the multidimensionality of the phenomenon and the links between Catholicism and mass society. To that end, the Congress is analyzed from different aspects: mass culture, the tourism industry, advertising discourse, consumption, the logic of the spectacle. Finally, in light of the results obtained, the political dimension is analyzed, in order to understand how these processes fueled the rhetoric of the “myth of the Catholic nation,” and helped strengthen the positions of the Catholic Church in 20th -century Argentinean politics.

Keywords : mobilization; Church; fundamentalism; religious tourism; consumption; Catholic nationalism.

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