Religion, Society, and Culture in Colombia

This is the first detailed scholarly study of culture and sociability in Colombia between about 1850 and 1930. Patricia Londoo-Vega gives a vivid picture of some of the factors that reduced social distances in the province of Antioquia during this period of relative harmony and prosperity. She examines hundred of the groups and voluntary associations which flourished at this time and which brought a growing number of Antioqueos of different social backgrounds together around religious practices and societies, the exercising of charity, a concern for education, and the pursuit of cultural progress.