FROM THE RELIGION OF OATH TO THE SECULAR OATH: CONCLUSIONS OF A STUDY ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF PROCESSUAL OATH IN COLOMBIA THROUGH THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Authors

  • Andrés Botero Bernal University of Medellín, Medellín - Antioquia.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v60i1.39763

Keywords:

Judicial oath. Judicial process. Laicization. Religion. Truth.

Abstract

This paper presents the conclusions of a large research that brings new lights into the process of laicization of the judicial oath through the nineteenth century in Colombia. Based on primary (trials, rules and literature – causas célebres) and secondary sources, it’s analyzed the value of the oath as a guarantor of truth within the framework of the cultural purpose of the judicial procedure, the evolution of the oath (politically and judicially) in the modernity and the gradual passage of the religious oath to one of legal form into the Colombian judicial process. It also discusses the strong relationship between religion (both, educated and popular) and the procedural oath, all with the goal to contribute to the identification of the most important characteristics of the nineteenth-century legal culture.

 

Author Biography

Andrés Botero Bernal, University of Medellín, Medellín - Antioquia.

Bacharel em Direito pela Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana; licenciado em Filosofia e Letras pela Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana; especialista em docência universitária pela Universidad Santo Tomás; especialista em contextualização psicossocial do crime pela Universidad San Buenaventura; diplomado em Estudos Avançados pela Universidad de Huelva; mestre em storia e comparazione delle istituzioni politiche e giuridiche dei Paesi dell’Europa Mediterranea pelas Universidades de Messina, Milão, Autónoma de Madrid y Córdoba; doutor em Direito pela Universidad de Buenos Aires. Professor-pesquisador da Universidad Industrial de Santander (Colômbia).

 

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Published

2015-03-11

How to Cite

Bernal, A. B. (2015). FROM THE RELIGION OF OATH TO THE SECULAR OATH: CONCLUSIONS OF A STUDY ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF PROCESSUAL OATH IN COLOMBIA THROUGH THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Revista Da Faculdade De Direito UFPR, 60(1), 215–246. https://doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v60i1.39763

Issue

Vol. 60 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Tradução

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