«El catolicismo tiene masas». Nation, Politics and Catholic Mobilization in Spain, 1868-1931

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Published 07-07-2015
Francisco Javier Ramón Solans

Abstract

From 1868 to 1936 there was an ongoing cultural war about the secular or religious definition of the public sphere in Spain. Face up to this struggle, Spanish Catholics, far from being passive, undertook the reform of their contents, organizations and strategies, using modern ways of mass mobilization. Also, it was created a powerful network of organizations, which could integrate for the first time, lay people, youth, women and men. The development of the devotion of the Virgin, the Sacred Heart and Christ the King provided catholic people of symbols with which they could identify themselves and the group. Finally, this renewal should be understood in the context of the creation of a political culture, linking Spanish identity and Catholicism. National-Catholicism gave meaning to these new strategies, practices and associations.

 
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Keywords

Spanish Catholicism, culture, mobilization, modernity, nation

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