Social Christian thought and circulation of ideas: the networks through which ideas were imported and exported in the 1960s in Chile

Abstract

When it comes to understanding the position of Chilean and Latin
American intellectuals, in the context of the global circulation of
ideas, research on social Christianity in the 1960s is interesting,
because it can be set at the confluence of several movements. In the
process of understanding the syntheses produced in the context of
social Christianity of that time, we discover the process leading to
the combination of different lines of thought, taking into account the
networks through which they appeared and combined. On the other
hand, rather than conforming to the accepted idea of studying culture
in our part of the world, as only the importers, we intend to study the
exportation of these syntheses and the networks through which they
traveled. This work focuses primarily on two cases: for the importation
of ideas, the network “Economy and Humanism” and for the exportation,
the network “Christians for Socialism.”