Agencia clerical en contextos críticos: La rioja (Argentina) primeras décadas del siglo XIX

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12/2025
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Universidad Nacional de Salta. Centro Promocional de las Investigaciones en Historia y Antropología
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Existe un presupuesto extendido según el cual, en tiempos de crisis, los agentes religiosossienten la necesidad de intervenir y aportar soluciones. También se considera que sonlos encargados de restaurar los imaginarios dañados durante los “eventos críticos”(Visakovsky, 2011), ya que pueden dar significado al desorden.Sin negar estas ideas, la presente propuesta explora la posibilidad inversa. Al examinar elpapel desempeñado por algunos sacerdotes que participaron en la crisis política desatada enLa Rioja durante los cinco primeros años de la década de 1820, nos preguntamos si la figuradel sacerdote debe considerarse siempre como un agente que fomenta la unión o si los curastambién pudieron colaborar con la disolución de certezas y el aumento de divergencias,fomentando el malestar social y la tensión. En este contexto, se analizan las respuestasde los clérigos, mediadas por el proceso de crisis y transformación social abierto por la revolución independentista. Esto hizo posible la aparición de oportunidades únicas paracambiar el destino de las personas. En este sentido, las acciones personales de los sacerdotesno solo revelan que no siempre actuaron de manera conciliadora, sino que también son unindicio de la crisis del modelo clerical que había dominado durante el período colonial.
A widely held assumption suggests that in times of crisis, religious agents feel compelled to intervene and provide solutions. It is also often assumed that they are responsible for restoring the collective imaginaries damaged during “critical events” (Visakovsky, 2011), since they can give meaning to disorder. Without denying these ideas, this article explores the opposite possibility. By examining the role played by several priests involved in the political crisis that unfolded in La Rioja during the first five years of the 1820s, it asks whether the priest should always be regarded as an agent of unity—or whether some clerics may also have contributed to the dissolution of certainties and the increase of divisions, fostering social unrest and tension. Within this framework, the article analyzes clerical responses shaped by the broader process of crisis and social transformation triggered by the independence revolution. This situation created unique opportunities for individuals to alter their destinies. In this sense, the priests’ personal actions reveal not only that they did not always act as conciliators, but also that they embodied the crisis of the clerical model that had prevailed during the colonial period.
A widely held assumption suggests that in times of crisis, religious agents feel compelled to intervene and provide solutions. It is also often assumed that they are responsible for restoring the collective imaginaries damaged during “critical events” (Visakovsky, 2011), since they can give meaning to disorder. Without denying these ideas, this article explores the opposite possibility. By examining the role played by several priests involved in the political crisis that unfolded in La Rioja during the first five years of the 1820s, it asks whether the priest should always be regarded as an agent of unity—or whether some clerics may also have contributed to the dissolution of certainties and the increase of divisions, fostering social unrest and tension. Within this framework, the article analyzes clerical responses shaped by the broader process of crisis and social transformation triggered by the independence revolution. This situation created unique opportunities for individuals to alter their destinies. In this sense, the priests’ personal actions reveal not only that they did not always act as conciliators, but also that they embodied the crisis of the clerical model that had prevailed during the colonial period.
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