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OverviewAs in Europe, secular nation building in Latin America challenged the traditional authority of the Roman Catholic Church in the early twentieth century. In response, Catholic social and political movements sought to contest state-led secularisation and provide an answer to the 'social question', the complex set of problems associated with urbanisation, industrialisation, and poverty. As Catholics mobilised against the secular threat, they also struggled with each other to define the proper role of the Church in the public sphere. This study utilizes recently opened files at the Vatican pertaining to Mexico's post-revolutionary Church-state conflict known as the Cristero Rebellion (1926-1929). However, looking beyond Mexico's exceptional case, the work employs a transnational framework, enabling a better understanding of the supranational relationship between Latin American Catholic activists and the Vatican. To capture this world historical context, Andes compares Mexico to Chile's own experience of religious conflict. Unlike past scholarship, which has focused almost exclusively on local conditions, Andes seeks to answer how diverse national visions of Catholicism responded to papal attempts to centralize its authority and universalize Church practices worldwide.The Politics of Transnational Catholicism applies research on the interwar papacy, which is almost exclusively European in outlook, to a Latin American context. The national cases presented illuminate how Catholicism shaped public life in Latin America as the Vatican sought to define Catholic participation in Mexican and Chilean national politics. It reveals that Catholic activism directly influenced the development of new political movements such as Christian Democracy, which remained central to political life in the region for the remainder of the twentieth century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen J. C. Andes (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Louisiana State University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.470kg ISBN: 9780199688487ISBN 10: 0199688486 Pages: 266 Publication Date: 20 February 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Vatican Policy & Political Catholicism in Latin America before 1920 PART I: THE VATICAN & MEXICO IN THE 1920s 2: Catholic Activism in Revolutionary Mexico, c. 1920-1925 3: The Vatican & Mexico's Cristero Rebellion, 1926-1929 PART II: THE VATICAN & CHILE IN THE 1920s 4: A Transnational Triangle: The Vatican, Chilean Catholics, & Mexico's Cristero Rebellion 5: Precursors to Chilean Christian Democracy, c. 1920-1930 PART III: CONTESTING CATHOLIC ACTION 6: The Vatican & Mexican Lay Activists after the Cristero Rebellion 7: The Vatican, Chilean Conservatives, & Social Catholics in the 1930s 8: A Convergence in Rome: The 1933 Iberoamerican Congress Conclusion BibliographyReviewsWhen the volcano of Civil War erupted in 1861, American literature had already achieved maturity in the writings of Emerson, Melville, Whitman, Hawthorne, and others. All of them, plus new voices like Emily Dickinson, tried to understand and express the profound meaning of the war in their writings, which Randall Fuller skillfully dissects in this original and incisive volume. -James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom In this lucid and insightful work, Randall Fuller probes the creative and intellectual responses of some of the nation's greatest writers to the Civil War. The result is a luminous and revealing portrait of American literary culture in a period of volcanic eruption. -Louis P. Masur, author of TheCivil War: A Concise History This is a beautiful, powerful book, uniting the pivotal event of American history with the defining literature of the nation. Fuller's account is filled with humanity, eloquence, and surprise. Anyone who reads this book will see both the Civil War and America's iconic authors with new eyes. --Edward Ayers, author of In The Presence of Mine Enemies Fuller's book is a moving excursion through the writers who found their language altered by the convulsions of the American Civil War. From Alcott to Emerson, Dickinson to Douglass, Melville to Hawthorne, Fuller traces connections both familiar and strange, granting careful attention to new literary configurations in the wake of war. -Shirley Samuels, author of Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War Highly recommended. -Library Journal A fresh and fascinating look not only at Melville, Emerson, Whitman, and Hawthorne but at lesser lights and the loyalties that drove them...It should stand high on any must-read list of books, old or new, as we move into the Civil War anniversary years. -The Weekly Standard When it comes to the Civil War, there's no poem or novel or even author who leaves us saying: This is the on Well written and handsomely illustrated... [A] valuable addition to the bookshelf. --Montreal Gazette A well-rounded portrait. ... This book is reliable and thorough; a handy handbook on the forces of tradition and modernity. --Montreal Review of Books For anyone wanting to know more about Quebec, a little or even a lot, this book has much to recommend it. --Life in Quebec This should become the go-to history of Quebec. --Brian Young, Canada's History Stephen Andes's highly insightful book draws attention to the influence wielded outside Europe by an institution that has largely operated under the radar; it is an important addition to the growing body of archival-based work on the modern papacy. * Philip Chrimes, International Affairs * Stephen Andes's excellent study of transnational Catholic politics in Mexico, Chile, and Rome connects two national histories to interwar Vatican diplomacy ... It gives real insights into how the Vatican centralized political dialogue with the Latin American states, recouping the political capital of social Catholicism and finessing the local contours of Church and state in the process. * Catholic Historical Review * Author InformationStephen J. C. Andes received his doctorate at Oxford University and is assistant professor in the history of Latin America at Louisiana State University. The Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association awarded him the best dissertation prize in 2010-2011. His recent work includes an article exploring the impact of the Vatican on Catholic identity in post-revolutionary Mexico and a chapter in an edited volume detailing the impact of the Cristero Rebellion (1926-1929) on Chilean Catholics. In April 2012 he published an article in The Americas journal entitled 'A Catholic Alternative to Revolution: The Survival of Social Catholicism in Postrevolutionary Mexico'. His current book project is a biography of Gustavo Gutiérrez, one of the intellectual founders of liberation theology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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