{"product_id":"the-spanish-civil-war-as-a-religious-tragedy-9780268017262","title":"The Spanish Civil War as a Religious Tragedy","description":"The Spanish Civil War was one of the most passionate idealogical conflicts of modern times. It was the greatest and last struggle between traditional Catholicism and liberal secularism. To many, religion became the most divisive issue of the war, the single problem that distinguished one fraction from another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Spanish Civil War as a Religious Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full-length comprehensive study of the religious dimension of the Spanish conflict. Drawing on memoirs, eye-witness accounts, the religious press of the period, and a thorough reading of secondary literature, Jos? M. S?nchez objectively examines the events, issues, attitudes, and effects of the war and corrects the mythology that has grown up around the topic.\u003cbr\u003eEspecially vivid is S?nchez's account of the anticlerical fury in which nearly 7,000 clerics were killed, thousands of churches burned and destroyed, countless lay-persons assassinated, and the entire cultural ethic of Spanish Catholicism set upon an iconoclastic bloodletting worse than any other in the history of Christianity. The clergy's offering of pastoral and idealogical support to Franco's Nationalists as a response to the fury is also examined. S?nchez then focuses on the complexities of the Basques - an intensely Catholic people who made common cause with the anticlerical Republicans. He explores the Vatican's policy toward both sides, and analyzes the theological and moral controversy over the justice of the war as fought in the journals and the press, both in Spain and abroad. Finally, he investigates the controversies as they affected Catholics in France, England, and the United States, and concludes with an evaluation of the war's impact upon the religious consciousness of Spain, the Church, and the western world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosé M. Sánchez, Professor of History at Saint Louis University (emeritus), is author of \u003ci\u003eAnticlericalism: A Brief History\u003c\/i\u003e (university of Notre Dame Press, 1972) and \u003ci\u003eReform and Reaction.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50553688097042,"sku":"9780268017262","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5d877a20-fabb-4dc8-a998-c617e7020e00.jpg?v=1731701911","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-spanish-civil-war-as-a-religious-tragedy-9780268017262","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}