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Religion and politics have historically clashed in modern Spain but the complexity of the controversial and sometimes violent relationships between Catholic values and modern political regimes continue to ride a precarious line of spiritual accommodation versus public policy. Leading experts on religious Spanish tradition and recent historiographic findings set out to define and interrogate grey areas in the last two centuries beyond the reductive conventional notion of an ever-warring ""Two Spains."" The Soul of the Nation unravels the role of religion in the country's public life following the imperial crisis of 1808 when the Catholic Monarchy put the role of the Church at heart of political and cultural debates.

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Author:   Gregorio Alonso ,  Claudio Hernández Burgos
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805395973

ISBN 10:   1805395971
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 July 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: On Religious Nationalisms: The Staggering March from Sacralization to Politicization in Modern Spain Chapter 1. “A People Who Need a Friar’s Permission to Read and to Think?”: Catholicism and Spanish Identity in the Encyclopédie Méthodique Debate (1782-1788) Antonio Calvo Maturana Chapter 2. The Protection of the Faith and the Politics of Religion in the Reign of Ferdinand VII Scott Eastman Chapter 3. Religion and the Nation’s Future, 1845–1868 Jesús Millán and María Cruz Romeo Chapter 4. Sons of the Gospel: Religiosity and Secularization in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Republicanism Ester García Moscardó Chapter 5. The Catholic Clergy and Lay Associationism in the Defence of the Catholic Unity of the Spanish Nation (1875-1913) Mª Pilar Salomón Chéliz Chapter 6. Providential Dictator. Nation and Religion under Primo de Rivera (1923-1930) Alejandro Quiroga Chapter 7. Nation, Faith and Devotions: Sacralized Mobilization and Patriotic Restoration during the Spanish Civil War César Rina Simón Chapter 8. ‘Eternal Spain’: Religion, Politics and Antifeminism in the Second Republic and the Civil War Teresa María Ortega López Chapter 9. Catholicism, Democracy, and Nation in the Spain of the Latter Part of the Twentieth Century Vicente Jesús Díaz Burillo and Alicia Muñoz Ramírez Conclusion: Religious Nationalisms in the Age of Disenchantment Gregorio Alonso and Claudio Hernández Burgos

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Gregorio Alonso is Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom). He is the author of La Nación en Capilla.Ciudadanía católica y cuestión religiosa España, 1793-1874 (2014), and the co-author and editor of The Politics and Memory of Democratic Transition (2011), and Londres y el Liberalismo Hispánico (2011).

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