Publicación: The Soul of the Nation. Catholicism and Nationalization in Modern Spain

Acaba de publicarse, en la editorial Berghahn Books, la obra colectiva titulada The Soul of the Nation. Catholicism and Nationalization in Modern Spain, bajo la coordinación de Gregorio Alonso y Claudio Hernández Burgos. Reproducimos aquí abajo el resumen de la obra en inglés así como el índice de la misma. Se puede solicitar una copia digital pinchando en el enlace dedicado en la página web de la editorial.

Resumen/Abstract

Religion and politics have historically clashed in modern Spain but the complexity of the controversial and sometimes violent relationships between Catholic values and modern political regimes continue to ride a precarious line of spiritual accommodation versus public policy. Leading experts on religious Spanish tradition and recent historiographic findings set out to define and interrogate grey areas in the last two centuries beyond the reductive conventional notion of an ever-warring “Two Spains.” The Soul of the Nation unravels the role of religion in the country’s public life following the imperial crisis of 1808 when the Catholic Monarchy put the role of the Church at heart of political and cultural debates.