Gunpowder and Incense: The Catholic Church and the Spanish Civil WarNow available in English for the first time, Gunpowder and Incense (translated from the Spanish La Pólvora y el Incienso) chronicles the role of the Church in Spanish politics, looking in particular at the Spanish Civil War. Unlike most books on the subject, Hilari Raguer looks beyond the traditional explanation that the war was primarily a religious struggle. His writing presents an exemplary "insider's" perspective, and is notable for its balance and perception on the role of the Catholic Church before, during and after the War. The material is presented in a lucid, elegant manner - which makes this book as readable as it is historiographically important. It will be vital reading for students and scholars of European, religious and modern history. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A polemical subject | 15 |
The military uprising of July 1936 | 36 |
The consecration of the pronunciamiento | 50 |
Involvement of the Spanish Church in the Civil War | 63 |
The Vatican press in the Civil War | 77 |
How the document originated | 106 |
Religious persecution | 126 |
doves and hawks The third Spain | 209 |
A Basque Catholic in the Government of the Republic | 250 |
An interdict against Vidal i Barraquer | 283 |
13 The Church of victory | 309 |
Chronology | 326 |
Documentary appendix | 330 |
Notes | 355 |
Bibliography | 391 |
Other editions - View all
Gunpowder and Incense: The Catholic Church and the Spanish Civil War Hilari Raguer Limited preview - 2007 |
Gunpowder and Incense: The Catholic Church and the Spanish Civil War Hilario M. Raguer Suñer,Hilari Raguer No preview available - 2012 |
Gunpowder and Incense: The Catholic Church and the Spanish Civil War Hilario M. Raguer Suñer No preview available - 2007 |