The Soul of the Nation

Introduction: On Religious Nationalisms: The Staggering March from Sacralization to Politicization in Modern Spain



Chapter 1. "A People Who Need a Friar's Permission to Read and to Think?": Catholicism and Spanish Identity in the Encyclopedie Methodique Debate (1782-1788)

Antonio Calvo Maturana



Chapter 2. The Protection of the Faith and the Politics of Religion in the Reign of Ferdinand VII

Scott Eastman



Chapter 3. Religion and the Nation's Future, 1845-1868

Jesus Millan and Maria Cruz Romeo



Chapter 4. Sons of the Gospel: Religiosity and Secularization in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Republicanism

Ester Garcia Moscardo



Chapter 5. The Catholic Clergy and Lay Associationism in the Defence of the Catholic Unity of the Spanish Nation (1875-1913)

M? Pilar Salomon Cheliz



Chapter 6. Providential Dictator. Nation and Religion under Primo de Rivera (1923-1930)

Alejandro Quiroga



Chapter 7. Nation, Faith and Devotions: Sacralized Mobilization and Patriotic Restoration during the Spanish Civil War

Cesar Rina Simon



Chapter 8. 'Eternal Spain': Religion, Politics and Antifeminism in the Second Republic and the Civil War

Teresa Maria Ortega Lopez



Chapter 9. Catholicism, Democracy, and Nation in the Spain of the Latter Part of the Twentieth Century

Vicente Jesus Diaz Burillo and Alicia Munoz Ramirez



Conclusion: Religious Nationalisms in the Age of Disenchantment

Gregorio Alonso and Claudio Hernandez Burgos