Soul of the Nation

Gregorio Alonso is Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom). He is the author of La Nación en Capilla.Ciudadanía católica y cuestión religiosa España, 1793-1874 (2014), and the co-author and editor of The Politics and Memory of Democratic Transition (2011), and Londres y el Liberalismo Hispánico (2011).

• Introduction: On Religious Nationalisms: The Staggering March from Sacralization to Politicization in Modern SpainChapter 1. “A People Who Need a Friar’s Permission to Read and to Think?”: Catholicism and Spanish Identity in the Encyclopédie Méthodique Debate (1782-1788)Antonio Calvo MaturanaChapter 2. The Protection of the Faith and the Politics of Religion in the Reign of Ferdinand VIIScott EastmanChapter 3. Religion and the Nation’s Future, 1845–1868Jesús Millán and María Cruz RomeoChapter 4. Sons of the Gospel: Religiosity and Secularization in Nineteenth-Century Spanish RepublicanismEster García MoscardóChapter 5. The Catholic Clergy and Lay Associationism in the Defence of the Catholic Unity of the Spanish Nation (1875-1913)Mª Pilar Salomón ChélizChapter 6. Providential Dictator. Nation and Religion under Primo de Rivera (1923-1930)Alejandro QuirogaChapter 7. Nation, Faith and Devotions: Sacralized Mobilization and Patriotic Restoration during the Spanish Civil WarCésar Rina SimónChapter 8. ‘Eternal Spain’: Religion, Politics and Antifeminism in the Second Republic and the Civil WarTeresa María Ortega LópezChapter 9. Catholicism, Democracy, and Nation in the Spain of the Latter Part of the Twentieth CenturyVicente Jesús Díaz Burillo and Alicia Muñoz RamírezConclusion: Religious Nationalisms in the Age of DisenchantmentGregorio Alonso and Claudio Hernández Burgos