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Love and Despair - How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico (Paperback)
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Love and Despair - How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico (Paperback)
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Love and Despair explores the multiple and mostly unknown
ways progressive and conservative Catholic actors, such as priests,
lay activists, journalists, intellectuals, and filmmakers,
responded to the significant social and cultural shifts that formed
competing notions of modernity in Cold War Mexico. Jaime M. Pensado
demonstrates how the Catholic Church as a heterogeneous
institution—with key transnational networks in Latin America and
Western Europe—was invested in youth activism, state repression,
and the counterculture from the postwar period to the more radical
Sixties. Similar to their secular counterparts, progressive
Catholics often saw themselves as revolutionary actors and nearly
always framed their activism as an act of love. When their
movements were repressed and their ideas were co-opted,
marginalized, and commercialized at the end of the Sixties, the
liberating hope of love often turned into a sense of despair.
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