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CAMACHO DOMINGUEZ, Adriam. The religious background of the return of Havana english. Tiempo y Espacio [online]. 2015, vol.25, n.64, pp.154-167. ISSN 1315-9496.

Traditionally historians have addressed the question of the return of the English Habana giving greater weight to economic, political and military factors, showing little interest in religious explanations or motivations that might have the British government. Although this element was not relevant, this article aims to analyze the religious background of Havana capture and siege considering that the naval battle and the surrender of the city also symbolized the existing religious rivalry between England and Spain in the colonial context. Both powers sustained its colonial policies in the prevalence of official religions as monopolistic ideology, complementing the political and economic domination of the various population centers. In Havana case, the heterogeneous and divided English Protestantism was a point of conflict over Catholicism, religion that plays an important role in the possession of Havana with a creole population mostly Catholic.

Palabras clave : Catholicism; colonies; anglicanism; protestantism; creole Church.

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