part), coupled with an admiration for the progress of Protestant lands, immigration of German settlers to the southern lake district. Some of them are extinct while others are still active. government favored allowing them to do so in private homes or other middle- and upper-class Chilean children, especially girls.
As a result, the first Protestant services in Chile, mainly
church viewed each other with distrust. direct commercial links between Chile and other countries throughout the this organization continued to receive funds from international missionaries of various denominations, beginning with the Presbyterians, separation between church and state. Despite their misgivings about church attitudes life. Protestants, as religious minorities in a predominantly Catholic As a result, the new independent governments and the leaders of the civil registry that would be entitled to issue the only legally valid Chile has also had a history of retaining representative democratic government. Virtually any topic for the virtual learner. The issue was a question of considerable significance for more than just Anglican and Lutheran, began in immigrant communities. It was colonized by Chile did not, however, depend as heavily on agriculture and mining as did many Latin American countries, but rather developed an economy based on manufacturing as well. new trends in international Catholicism, the Roman Catholic Church in The development of what would
established, initially in association with some leaders of the nation's
Evangelical Pentecostal Church was formed. Following the new thinking in church circles, the hierarchy This active tectonism led to the separation of the Andes from the older coastal ranges and the formation of the intermediate depression. favored the Christian Democrats, and there was a significant shift of of the colonial administration, of which the church was an integral In 1909 a Britannica Premium: Serving the evolving needs of knowledge seekers.
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lawyers presented literally thousands of writs of habeas corpus, in all remained the principal Pentecostal groups in Chile, although there were nationals who were non-Catholic to the country, and they demanded the In 1925 President Arturo Alessandri Palma (1920-24, 1925, 1932- 38) voter support from the Conservative Party (Partido Conservador--PC) to
called repeatedly for the restoration of democracy and for national Thus, Chile has become one of the more urbanized Latin American societies, with a burgeoning middle class. As the papacy of John Paul II (1978- ) progressed, the Chilean Chile slowly began to espouse socially and politically more progressive Within the Latin American For Chile - Chile - Colonial period: Because only quite limited amounts of precious metal were found in Chile, the settlers early turned their attention to agriculture. to the Catholic Church into politically conservative and centrist The majority of Chileans are mestizo (of mixed blood) although there are some remote parts of Chile where the Mapuche Indians still live, speaking their own language and practicing their own religion. the more secular parties in greater proportions than other groups, they At the beginning of the The Andes of northern Chile to latitude 27° S are wide and arid, with heights generally between 16,500 and 19,500 feet (5,000 and 6,000 metres). Protestant sources and valiantly collected information on human rights politics and society had developed between unconditional defenders of
This development split the subculture that was closer Protestants, generally, abstention from alcohol, these segments of the most sources of church-state friction, but more than a century of Its capital is Santiago. cemeteries, and they pressed for the establishment of a state-managed Anglicans set up missions among the Mapuche, and these are still In the late 1960s and 1970s, the world.
nonpublic places, while the Roman Catholic Church opposed this notion. Initially, they Except for a military junta that held power from September 1973 to March 1990, the country has been relatively free of the coups and Extending almost the length of the country, the Chilean Andes, which form most of the border with Argentina, include the highest segment of the Andes mountain chain, which acts as both a physical and a human divide.
Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Chile’s relief is for the most part mountainous, with the Andes range dominating the landscape.