Publicación/Publication- Nationalism, Religious Violence, and Hate Speech

Acaba de publicarse, en la editorial Palgrave, la obra colectiva Nationalism, Religious Violence, and Hate Speech in Nineteenth-Century Western Europe. Memories of Intolerance, bajo la coordinación de Francisco Javier Ramón Solans, miembro del equipo de AMAPOL. La obra es fruto de un congreso que se celebró en Zaragoza en noviembre de 2021, bajo el título Memorias de la intolerancia. Los diferentes casos de estudio que se analizan en el libro abordan distintos aspectos del martirio, en la encrucijada de la política y la religión, situándolas en la mecánica de la conflictividad religiosa del siglo XIX (se destacan algunos capítulos que plantean las identidades martiriales respecto a las figuras de víctimas y perpetradores).

Reproducimos aquí abajo el resumen y el índice de la obra. El prólogo puede descargarse libremente en la página web de la editorial.

Resumen/Résumé

Looking back, European societies often did not seek to overcome their differences and create a framework of peaceful coexistence among various religions and denominations, but rather, more frequently, to fuel intra- and inter-religious hatred. Moreover, various violent pasts were mobilised to define what and who was intolerant, in order to mark the “other” as intolerant and therefore incompatible with societal values. To examine conflicting memories of violence and hatred, this book focuses on commemorations, statues, publications, and public polemics surrounding past religious violence. Three elements serve as a framework to explain the conflictive nature of these memories of intolerance: the age of commemorations, the culture wars, and the second confessional age. The authors explore cases in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the Low Countries, covering Catholicism, Protestantism, Anglicanism, Islam, and Judaism. The book focuses on iconic victims such as Giordano Bruno and Michael Servetus, collective massacres, and discourses surrounding religious hatred in events such as the Crusades. The cases of religious violence remembered in the nineteenth century span the Middle Ages and the intense period of religious violence known as the confessional age.

Índice/Table des matières

Introduction – Francisco Javier Ramón Solans

1.     Servetus’ Memory as the Symbol of Christian Intolerance – Valentine Zuber

2.     Remembering and Narrating Catholic Intolerance in Anti-Catholic British Discourse during the Long Nineteenth Century – Géraldine Vaughan

3.     A Battle for Freedom: The Statue of Giordano Bruno in Rome – Massimo Bucciantini

4.     Manipulating Martyrdom: Repurposing the Victims of Blasphemy Prosecution for Libertarian Purposes in Nineteenth-Century England – David S. Nash

5.     Between Perpetrator and Victim: Pedro Arbués’ Canonization and the Memory of Inquisition in 1867 Europe – Francisco Javier Ramón Solans

6.     The “Legend” of Intolerant Spain in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Reactionary Discourse – Juan Pablo Domínguez

7.     The Crusade Between Memorial Activation and Re-enactment: Sacrifice, War and the Brutalization of the Enemy in the Nineteenth Century – Ignazio Veca

8.     Memories and Narratives of the Roman Inquisition in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: Silences, Apologies, Denunciations – David Armando

9.     The Reformation Re-enacted. The Role of the Sixteenth-Century Memory in the Swiss Kulturkampf – Sarah Scholl

10.  Memory in Anti-Judaism and Modern Antisemitism: German Catholic Mentalities Between 1870 and 1945 – Olaf Blaschke

11.  Conclusion: Sites of Memory of Intolerance – Francisco Javier Ramón Solans

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