Catholics and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Global World
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Catholics and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Global World
About This Book
This book analyzes violence involving Catholics in the nineteenth-century world â revealing the motives for violence, showing the link between religious and secular grievances, and illuminating Catholic pluralism.
Catholics and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Global World is the first study to systematically analyze the link between faith and violent action in modern history. Focusing on incidents involving members of the Roman Catholic Church across the globe, the book offers a kaleidoscopic overview of situations in which physical or symbolic violence attended inner-Catholic, Catholic-secular, and interreligious conflicts. Focusing especially on the role of agency, the authors explore the motives behind, perceptions of, and legitimation strategies for religion-related violence, as well as evaluating debates about conflict and discussing the role of religious leadership in violent incidents. Additionally, they illuminate the complex ways in which religious grievances interacted with secular differences and highlight the plurality of Catholic standpoints. In doing so, the book brings to light the variety of ways in which religion and violence have interacted historically.
Showing that the link between faith and violence was more nuanced than theoreticians of 'religious violence' suggest, the book will appeal to historians, social scientists, and religious scholars.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Violence and the Negotiation of Difference: Nineteenth-Century Catholic Encounters with the Religious and Secular Other
- Part I Rejecting Secularization
- Part II Contending Clericalism
- Part III Resisting Religious Pluralization
- Part IV Imposing a Catholic Order
- Part V Opposing Catholic Invasion
- Part VI Conclusions
- Index