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Author Walsh, Sarah, author

Title The religion of life : eugenics, race, and Catholicism in Chile / Sarah Walsh
Published Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (x, 223 pages) : illustrations
Series Pitt Latin American series
Pitt Latin American series.
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "The Girl Is Not Pursued": Shared Perspectives and Threats to the Chilean Race -- Chapter 2. The Two Truths: "Harmonizing" Catholicism and Science -- Chapter 3. What Is Eugenics in Chile? Formulating a National Discipline from a Transnational Movement -- Chapter 4. "One of the Most Uniform Races of the Entire World": Raza chilena and the Construction of Chilean Racial Homogeneity -- Chapter 5. "Intimately Linked to the Issue of Sex": Racial Health and the Modernization of Patriarchy
Chapter 6. Picturing la raza chilena: Visual Imagery and the Creation of a Racial Type -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 27, 2022)
Subject Catholic Church -- Chile
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Race -- Religious aspects.
Eugenics -- Chile -- History -- 20th century
Racism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Racism -- Chile -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- General.
Eugenics
Race relations
Race -- Religious aspects
Racism
Racism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
SUBJECT Chile -- Race relations
Subject Chile
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822988090
0822988097