"Hijos de Dios y miembros de la Santa Madre Iglesia" : adoctrinar y bautizar en la Patagonia de fines del siglo XIX y principios del XX

Abstract

The process of Catholic evangelization in Patagonia has been developed in the middle of a complex situation of conquest and material and symbolic violence in controlling, disciplining, and introducing a new faith and culture. The evangelization, carried out by lazaristas at the south of Buenos Aires territory and Salesians in Patagonia during this period, through the preaching of the doctrine and by means of the sacraments to modify everyday actions. Through collected catechist bilingual texts, and a series of missionary texts covering stories, letters and publications on missions, we intend to analyse the mechanisms of evangelization that were implemented in our region through the preaching of the doctrine and the sacramental administration. This is why we can hypothesize about which were the evangelized subjects' resistance to these actions.