Abstract:In the process of progressive secularization of society, which gained strength after the late 19th century in Europe and America, the relationships between State and Church assumed a conflicting dynamic that historiography began to call "religious question". In this article, I propose to analyze the highpoint of this relational tension in Portugal based on a concrete episode, which, due to a convergence of circumstances and predispositions, became a symbol of the laicization of the Portuguese society. It is th… Show more
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