A "Gigantic Struggle Between Believers and Those Without God"? Catholicism in the Spanish Second Republic, 1931-1939

In Spain today, the place of the Catholic Church and the role of the Catholic faith under the Spanish Second Republic (1931-1939) remain one of the most bitterly contested aspects in recent history and memory. Behind that confrontation is the Catholic Church hierarchy's continued support for a...

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Main Author: Ryan, Richard R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
In: Religion compass
Year: 2015, Volume: 9, Issue: 4, Pages: 87-99
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Spain / Catholic church / Social role / Social change / History 1931-1939
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CG Christianity and Politics
CH Christianity and Society
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBH Iberian Peninsula
KDB Roman Catholic Church
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Summary:In Spain today, the place of the Catholic Church and the role of the Catholic faith under the Spanish Second Republic (1931-1939) remain one of the most bitterly contested aspects in recent history and memory. Behind that confrontation is the Catholic Church hierarchy's continued support for a narrative of "good versus evil," carried over from the 1930s and portraying the Church as a passive and helpless victim of Republican persecution. But as this article shows, far from a confrontation between "good and evil", the Republic was an arena of social change in which debates around religion and the place of the Church became the lens through which larger political, social, and cultural clashes played out. It suggests that historians must begin to pay much more attention to the reality experienced by many Catholics during the 1930s in order to fully understand the complexities of the Second Republic in peacetime and civil war.
ISSN:1749-8171
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion compass
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/rec3.12147