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The Vatican and Catholic Activism in Mexico and Chile - The Politics of Transnational Catholicism, 1920-1940 (Hardcover)
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The Vatican and Catholic Activism in Mexico and Chile - The Politics of Transnational Catholicism, 1920-1940 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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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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