COLONIAL FAULT LINES AND THE RUPTURES OF CHILEAN INDEPENDENCE: EARTHQUAKES, REASON, AND RELIGION IN THE POLEMIC BETWEEN CAMILO HENRIQUEZ AND TADEO SILVA

摘要

During Chilean independence, a polemic between fray Camilo Henriquez and Dominican Tadeo Silva over the causes of earthquakes and religious processions filled the pages of periodicals and pamphlets. After the 1812 Venezuela and 1822 Valparaiso earthquakes, Henriquez published articles in the newspapers he edited - La Aurora de Chile and Mercurio de Chile-arguing that earthquakes were nothing more than a natural phenomenon and urged the state to regulate bloody religious processions.