The Politics of Religion and the Rise of Social Catholicism in Peru (1884-1935)

Faith, Workers and Race Before Liberation Theology
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-35567-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Religion in the Americas

In The Politics of Religion and the Rise of Social Catholicism in Peru (1884-1935) Ricardo Cubas Ramacciotti provides a lucid synthesis of the Catholic Church’s responses to the secularisation of the State and society whilst offering a fresh appraisal of the emergence of Social Catholicism and its contribution to social thought and development of civil society in post-independence Peru. Making use of diverse historical sources, Cubas provides a comprehensive view of a reformist yet anti-revolutionary trend within the Peruvian Church that, decades before the emergence of Liberation Theology and under divergent intellectual paradigms, developed an active agenda that addressed the new social problems of the country, including those of urban workers, and of indigenous populations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cubas Ramacciotti, Ricardo Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Academic Approach and Sources

'Culture Wars' and Catholic Renewal

Catholicism and Politics in Peruvianist Historiography

Structure

Part I. The Politics of Religion

1 Church and State: Viceregal and Early Republican Antecedents

The Catholic Monarchy

Enlightened Absolutism and Religious Reform

Independence and Ecclesiastical Crisis

The Ultramontane Church

Regalism and the Liberal Challenge

2 The Secularisation Process during the Aristocratic Republic (1884–1919)

The Republican Patronato

Legal Status of Religious Institutes

Ecclesiastial Property and Economy

Civil Registry and the Sociedades de Beneficencia Pública

Civil Marriage

Religious Tolerance

3 Leguía's Oncenio and the Politics of Religion (1919–1930)

The Political Project of the Patria Nueva

Church-State Relations during the Oncenio

The Militant Church

4 Catholicism and the Emergence of Mass Politics in Peru (1930–1935)

Radical Parties and the Sacralisation of Politics

The Unión Popular

The Church, Civil Turmoil and the Constitution of 1933

Part II. The Catholic Revival

5 Bishops and the Clergy

6 Lay Associations

The Sociedad Católico-Peruana

The Unión Católica

The First Catholic Peruvian Congress (1896)

Female Associations

New Catholic Associations

7 Catholicism and Culture

Pre and Post-Independence Decline

The Rebirth of Catholic Education

The Catholic University and the Intellectual Renewal

The Catholic Press

Part III. Social Catholicism

8 Catholicism and the Labour Question

Papal Magisterium and Social Catholicism

Social Catholicism in Latin America

Economic and Social Conditions in Peru

Peruvian Catholic Thought and the Labour Question

The Circles of Catholic Workers (ccw)

The Case of the Circle of Catholic Workers of Arequipa (ccwa)

9 Ecclesiastical Indigenismo

The Indigenista Debate

Catholic Thought and the 'Indian Question'

A Bishop, a Priest and a Layman

The Rural Church

Missionaries and Amazon Indians during the 'Caucho Era'

Bishops and the Patronato de la Raza Indígena

Conclusion

Bibliography

Manuscript Sources

Newspaper Sources (Lima, unless Stated)

Printed Primary Sources

Printed Works

Thesis, Dissertations, and Other Unpublished Works

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ricardo D. Cubas Ramacciotti, (Ph.D., Cambridge, 2013) (Licentiate, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 1998) is Associate Professor of Latin American History at the Universidad de los Andes (Chile) and has published on various aspects of Latin American political and religious history.