Catholicism in the Second Spanish Republic : religion and politics in Salamanca, 1930-1936 / Mary Vincent.

The Second Spanish Republic survived unchallenged for a mere five years, its fall plunging Spain into a bitter civil war. The brief political history of the Republic was characterized by the rapid polarization of right and left - a process in which religion played a crucial role. Many of the ordinar...

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Main Author: Vincent, Mary
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, 1996.
Series:Oxford historical monographs.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Province and Parish: The Pastoral Task in Salamanca
  • 2. Religious Communities: Education and Welfare in Salamanca
  • 3. Traditional Piety: The Hallowing of Time and Place
  • 4. The Shaping of Piety: Devotional Life in the Twentieth Century
  • 5. Catholic Action and the Creation of a Lay Apostolate
  • 6. The Coming of the Republic
  • 7. Squeezing Out the Centre: Catholic Party Politics in the New Republic
  • 8. Mobilizing Against the Constitution
  • 9. Political Opposition in the bienio rojo: Agrarian Reform and the Birth of the CEDA
  • 10. Political Power in the bienio negro: The Dismantling of the Republic
  • 11. 1936: Political Defeat and the Coming of War.