For God and Liberty: Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790-1861

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Pamela Voekel (Associate Professor of History and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies, Associate Professor of History and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies, Dartmouth College)

For God and Liberty

Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790-1861

Pamela Voekel (Associate Professor of History and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies, Associate Professor of History and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies, Dartmouth College)

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Oxford University Press Inc
22 December 2022

History of the Americas; Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions; History of religion; Christianity

The Age of Revolution has traditionally been understood as an era of secularization, giving the transition from monarchy to independent republics through democratic movements a genealogy that assumes hostility to Catholicism. By centering the story on Spanish and Latin American actors, Pamela Voekel argues that at the heart of this nineteenth-century transformation in Spanish America was a transatlantic Catholic civil war. Voekel demonstrates Reform Catholicism's significance to the thought and action of the rebel literati who led decolonization efforts in Mexico and Central America, showing how each side of this religious divide operated from within a self-conscious intercontinental network of like-minded Catholics.

For its central protagonists, the era's crisis of sovereignty provided a political stage for a religious struggle. Drawing on ecclesiastical archives, pamphlets, sermons, and tracts, For God and Liberty reveals how the violent struggles of decolonization and the period before and after Independence are more legible in light of the fault lines within the Church.

By: Pamela Voekel (Associate Professor of History and Latin American Latino and Caribbean Studies Associate Professor of History and Latin American Latino and Caribbean Studies Dartmouth College)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 157mm, Width: 237mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780197610206
ISBN 10: 019761020X
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 22 December 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Acknowledgments Introduction: Empire of Faith Chapter 1: Drawing the Religious Battle Lines Chapter 2: The Rivals Muster Chapter 3: The Sacred Polity Chapter 4: The View from the Vatican Chapter 5: Escalation and Confrontation Chapter 6: The Literary Barricades Chapter 7: ""Religious Passion Tore Us Apart"" Chapter 8: The Long Shadow: Mexico's Reforma Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index"

Pamela Voekel is Associate Professor of History and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of the prize-winning Alone Before God: The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico and is a co-founder of the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas.

Reviews for For God and Liberty: Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790-1861

For God and Liberty definitively and artfully overturns the secularization thesis with respect to Latin America's great Independence movements. At the heart of the nineteenth-century wars of Independence was a sprawling, transatlantic religious conflict that pitted two different visions for the future of the church: one imperial, papal, and monarchical and the other regional, democratically governed, and laicized. Pamela Voekel expounds this grand thesis with unrivaled archival acuity and skill. Historians of religion, politics, democracy, and secularism will be reckoning with Voekel's magnum opus for decades to come. * Jennifer Scheper Hughes, author of The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas * A riveting, argumentative account of subversive Catholic thought and action as the vital clue to understanding Latin American independence and early republicanism. With particularly illuminating research on Central America, it invites consequential debate regarding politics on the cusp of transcendence. * Brian Connaughton, author of The Guadalajara Church and the Idea of the Mexican Nation, 1788-1853 *