The Soul of the Nation

Catholicism and Nationalization in Modern Spain

Gregorio Alonso, Claudio Hernández Burgos

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781805395973
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781805395980
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• 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, 1782–88
• Chapter 2. The Protection of the Faith and the Politics of Religion in the Reign of Fernando VII
• Chapter 3. Religion and the Nation’s Future, 1845–68
• Chapter 4. Sons of the Gospel: Religiosity and Secularization in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Republicanism
• Chapter 5. The Catholic Clergy and Lay Associationism in the Defense of the Catholic Unity of the Spanish Nation, 1875–1913
• Chapter 6. Providential Dictator: Nation and Religion under Primo de Rivera, 1923–30
• Chapter 7. “Eternal Spain”: Religion, Politics, and Antifeminism in the Second Republic and the Civil War
• Chapter 8. Nation, Faith, and Devotions: Sacralized Mobilization and Patriotic Restoration during the Spanish Civil War
• Chapter 9. Catholicism, Democracy, and Nation in the Spain of the Latter Part of the Twentieth Century
• Conclusion. Religious Nationalisms in the Age of Disenchantment
• Index