For God and Liberty - Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790-1861 (Paperback)

The Age of Revolution has traditionally been understood as an era of secularization, giving the transition from monarchy to independent republics through democratic movements a genealogy that assumes hostility to Catholicism. By centering the story on Spanish and Latin American actors, Pamela Voekel argues that at the heart of this nineteenth-century transformation in Spanish America was a transatlantic Catholic civil war. Voekel demonstrates Reform Catholicism's significance to the thought and action of the rebel literati who led decolonization efforts in Mexico and Central America, showing how each side of this religious divide operated from within a self-conscious intercontinental network of like-minded Catholics. For its central protagonists, the era's crisis of sovereignty provided a political stage for a religious struggle. Drawing on ecclesiastical archives, pamphlets, sermons, and tracts, For God and Liberty reveals how the violent struggles of decolonization and the period before and after Independence are more legible in light of the fault lines within the Church.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2022
Authors:	Pamela Voekel (Associate Professor of History and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies)
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-761020-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Revolutions & coups Books > History > American history > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion Books > Christianity Promotions
LSN:	0-19-761020-X
Barcode:	9780197610206

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