The 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 Spain



Chapter 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 Maturana



Chapter 2. The Protection of the Faith and the Politics of Religion in the Reign of Ferdinand VII

Scott Eastman



Chapter 3. Religion and the Nation’s Future, 1845–1868

Jesús Millán and María Cruz Romeo



Chapter 4. Sons of the Gospel: Religiosity and Secularization in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Republicanism

Ester García Moscardó



Chapter 5. The Catholic Clergy and Lay Associationism in the Defence of the Catholic Unity of the Spanish Nation (1875-1913)

Mª Pilar Salomón Chéliz



Chapter 6. Providential Dictator. Nation and Religion under Primo de Rivera (1923-1930)

Alejandro Quiroga



Chapter 7. Nation, Faith and Devotions: Sacralized Mobilization and Patriotic Restoration during the Spanish Civil War

César Rina Simón



Chapter 8. ‘Eternal Spain’: Religion, Politics and Antifeminism in the Second Republic and the Civil War

Teresa María Ortega López



Chapter 9. Catholicism, Democracy, and Nation in the Spain of the Latter Part of the Twentieth Century

Vicente Jesús Díaz Burillo and Alicia Muñoz Ramírez



Conclusion: Religious Nationalisms in the Age of Disenchantment

Gregorio Alonso and Claudio Hernández Burgos