For God and Liberty
Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790-1861
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 10 November 2022
- ISBN 9780197610190
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages422 pages
- Size 156x235x26 mm
- Weight 721 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 black and white illustrations 253
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Short description:
For God and Liberty centers the Catholic Church's contributions to the Age of Revolution, particularly to the rise of democratic political forms in the early republics of the nineteenth century in Latin America. It breaks with secular narratives of the nineteenth century to argue that the major political fault lines in Latin America corresponded to fault lines within the Church, while also grappling with the religious origins of the civil wars in Mexico and Central America.
MoreLong description:
The Age of Revolution has traditionally been understood as an era of secularization, giving the transition from monarchy to independent republics through democratic movements a genealogy that assumes hostility to Catholicism. By centering the story on Spanish and Latin American actors, Pamela Voekel argues that at the heart of this nineteenth-century transformation in Spanish America was a transatlantic Catholic civil war. Voekel demonstrates Reform Catholicism's significance to the thought and action of the rebel literati who led decolonization efforts in Mexico and Central America, showing how each side of this religious divide operated from within a self-conscious intercontinental network of like-minded Catholics. For its central protagonists, the era's crisis of sovereignty provided a political stage for a religious struggle. Drawing on ecclesiastical archives, pamphlets, sermons, and tracts, For God and Liberty reveals how the violent struggles of decolonization and the period before and after Independence are more legible in light of the fault lines within the Church.
Pamela Voekel's For God and Liberty is a tour de force. Her research spans religious and secular archives throughout the vast Catholic world of the Age of Revolution and its aftermath. Providing a micro-level analysis of the Catholic intellectuals and social actors within Mexico and Central America, she offers a transatlantic account of a stunning network of revolutionary and conservative lay and religious social actors whose participation in the rapidly changing political and religious life of Latin America and the world was defined by the language, history and intellectual currents of Catholicism...For God and Liberty provides a fascinating read, and is worthy of intense study.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Empire of Faith
Chapter 1: Drawing the Religious Battle Lines
Chapter 2: The Rivals Muster
Chapter 3: The Sacred Polity
Chapter 4: The View from the Vatican
Chapter 5: Escalation and Confrontation
Chapter 6: The Literary Barricades
Chapter 7: "Religious Passion Tore Us Apart"
Chapter 8: The Long Shadow: Mexico's Reforma
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
