For God and Liberty
Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790-1861
Published on 10. November 2022
Book
Hardback
422 pages
978-0-19-761019-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Pamela Voekel's For God and Liberty is a tour de force. Her research spans religious and secular archives throughout the vast Catholic world of the Age of Revolution and its aftermath. Providing a micro-level analysis of the Catholic intellectuals and social actors within Mexico and Central America, she offers a transatlantic account of a stunning network of revolutionary and conservative lay and religious social actors whose participation in the rapidly changing political and religious life of Latin America and the world was defined by the language, history and intellectual currents of Catholicism...For God and Liberty provides a fascinating read, and is worthy of intense study. * Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, ReVista * This is an important book; it deserved better attention in the final stages of production. * Donald F. Stevens, Church History * In this ambitious book, Pamela Voekel joins a revisionist historiographical trend that emphasizes the centrality of religion in the so-called Age of Revolutions in Spanish America...Voekel's book will offer a helpful guide in answering it. * Pablo Mijangos Y Gonza? Lez, Hispanic American Historical Review * For God and Liberty is a valuable addition to a burgeoning field of study. Scholars interested in the Age of Revolutions, nineteenth-century Latin America, and the interplay of religion and politics in the modern world would be well advised to procure a copy. * Glauco Schettini, H-Diplo * Voekel's book is a true tour de force of researchprowess, intellectual insights, and clever prose. It willreorient the stature of many subfields' debates andshould cause all of us to rewrite our classroom lectures. * Karen Racine, American Historical Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 156 mm
Width: 235 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
721 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-761019-0 (9780197610190)
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Pamela Voekel is Associate Professor of History and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of the prize-winning Alone Before God: The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico and is a co-founder of the Tepoztlan Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Empire of Faith
Chapter 1: Drawing the Religious Battle Lines
Chapter 2: The Rivals Muster
Chapter 3: The Sacred Polity
Chapter 4: The View from the Vatican
Chapter 5: Escalation and Confrontation
Chapter 6: The Literary Barricades
Chapter 7: "Religious Passion Tore Us Apart"
Chapter 8: The Long Shadow: Mexico's Reforma
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Empire of Faith
Chapter 1: Drawing the Religious Battle Lines
Chapter 2: The Rivals Muster
Chapter 3: The Sacred Polity
Chapter 4: The View from the Vatican
Chapter 5: Escalation and Confrontation
Chapter 6: The Literary Barricades
Chapter 7: "Religious Passion Tore Us Apart"
Chapter 8: The Long Shadow: Mexico's Reforma
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index