El catolicismo argentino frente a la diversidad religiosa en el contexto de la última dictadura militar (1976-1983)

This text analyzes the impact of the connection between the repressive policies deployed by the last argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983) and the actions of the ecclesiastical hierarchy on the religious diversity that existed in the 1970s. In this sense, it offers an approach that addresses the way bishops and other voices positioned themselves vis-à-vis different religions that were considered "sects" that challenged the catholic presence. The main hypothesis maintains that the positions and discourses that circulated in catholicism during the dictatorship regarding religious diversity are linked to two different but connected processes. On the one hand, the dictatorship itself, with its self-representation as a defender of the church and catholicism and, in general, its repressive deployment, established the framework within which demands proliferated for order to also be translated into the religious space, reconfiguring the forms of regulation. On the other hand, on a broader level, catholicism developed a self-critical view of its social presence and called for an evangelization that included, among its dimensions, the fight against what was considered an "invasion" of a space that was assumed to be its own due to history and culture