The Vatican and Catholic activism in Mexico and Chile : the politics of transnational Catholicism, 1920-1940 /

Andes examines Vatican policy towards Catholic social and political movements in Mexico and Chile in the 1920s and 1930s. He argues that conflict within the Church between Vatican officials, bishops, and lay Catholics influenced Catholic social and political participation in the public sphere in Mex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andes, Stephen J. C. (Stephen Joseph Carl) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Series:Oxford historical monographs.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Vatican policy and political Catholicism in Latin America before 1920
  • Catholic activism in revolutionary Mexico, c. 1920-1925
  • The Vatican and Mexico's Cristero Rebellion, 1926-1929
  • A transnational triangle: the Vatican, Chilean Catholics, and Mexico's Cristero Rebellion
  • Precursors to Chilean Christian democracy, c. 1920-1930
  • The Vatican and Mexican lay activists after the Cristero Rebellion
  • The Vatican, Chilean conservatives, and social Catholics in the 1930s
  • A convergence in Rome: the 1933 Iberoamerican Congress.