Stephen J. C. Andes

The Vatican and Catholic Activism in Mexico and Chile (eBook, PDF)

The Politics of Transnational Catholicism, 1920-1940

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Produktbeschreibung

As 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191002168
• Artikelnr.: 40441876

Autorenporträt

Stephen 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.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Vatican Policy and Political Catholicism in Latin America before
1920
* PART I: THE VATICAN and MEXICO IN THE 1920s
* 2: Catholic Activism in Revolutionary Mexico, c. 1920-1925
* 3: The Vatican and Mexico's Cristero Rebellion, 1926-1929
* PART II: THE VATICAN and CHILE IN THE 1920s
* 4: A Transnational Triangle: The Vatican, Chilean Catholics, and
Mexico's Cristero Rebellion
* 5: Precursors to Chilean Christian Democracy, c. 1920-1930
* PART III: CONTESTING CATHOLIC ACTION
* 6: The Vatican and Mexican Lay Activists after the Cristero Rebellion
* 7: The Vatican, Chilean Conservatives, and Social Catholics in the
1930s
* 8: A Convergence in Rome: The 1933 Iberoamerican Congress
* Conclusion
* Bibliography