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The Spanish Civil War as a Religious Tragedy (Hardcover)
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The Spanish Civil War as a Religious Tragedy (Hardcover)
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The Spanish Civil War was one of the most passionate idealogical
conflicts of modern times. It was the greatest and last struggle
between traditional Catholicism and liberal secularism. To many,
religion became the most divisive issue of the war, the single
problem that distinguished one fraction from another. The Spanish
Civil War as a Religious Tragedy is the first full-length
comprehensive study of the religious dimension of the Spanish
conflict. Drawing on memoirs, eye-witness accounts, the religious
press of the period, and a thorough reading of secondary
literature, Jose M. Sanchez objectively examines the events,
issues, attitudes, and effects of the war and corrects the
mythology that has grown up around the topic. Especially vivid is
Sanchez's account of the anticlerical fury in which nearly 7,000
clerics were killed, thousands of churches burned and destroyed,
countless lay-persons assassinated, and the entire cultural ethic
of Spanish Catholicism set upon an iconoclastic bloodletting worse
than any other in the history of Christianity. The clergy's
offering of pastoral and idealogical support to Franco's
Nationalists as a response to the fury is also examined. Sanchez
then focuses on the complexities of the Basques - an intensely
Catholic people who made common cause with the anticlerical
Republicans. He explores the Vatican's policy toward both sides,
and analyzes the theological and moral controversy over the justice
of the war as fought in the journals and the press, both in Spain
and abroad. Finally, he investigates the controversies as they
affected Catholics in France, England, and the United States, and
concludes with an evaluation of the war's impact upon the religious
consciousness of Spain, the Church, and the western world.
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