Los considerados enemigos del cristianismo/catolicismo a través de un semanario de la ciudad de Monterrey en 1873

Abstract

During the 1870s, a process of national transformation was experienced at a political, social and cultural level where ideological currents such as secularization, liberalism and the emergence of new religious cults outside the Christian and Catholic Church, caused a clash of interests, mainly between those of the traditional type and those that were in vogue. The present research work1 tries to analyze how this historical context was reflected in the religious sphere of the city of Monterrey where the clergy saw their doctrine threatened by another new ideology. Through the weekly "La Luz" they tried to point out those who they considered adverse to their beliefs. This research is of a historical nature and through discourse analysis the actors will be examined with their respective expressions and arguments to justify the sense of belonging. To achieve this, the theoretical proposals of the analysis instruments I and II of the author Manuela Picazo (2014) were taken into account; the elements of exclusion in the discourse of Michel Foucault (2005); the theory of the five features of ideology of Reboul (1986); the traditional fallacies proposed by Íñigo Fernández (2016); the models of context, group beliefs and ideological structures of Van Dijk (2005), as well as his Critical Discourse Analysis (2017). This is because they are the main theories that allow us to thoroughly understand the type of ideology of the weekly, as well as the elements it uses to express its disagreements, fears and the pointing out of those groups or social actors, all under the very "assumptions" that the media handles: its intentions, values, customs and actions that are a threat to religion, its Church and society itself.