ABSTRACT
This book analyzes violence involving Catholics in the nineteenth-century world – 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |29 pages
Violence and the Negotiation of Difference
part I|65 pages
Rejecting Secularization
chapter 1|23 pages
Religion and Violence during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
chapter 2|19 pages
“To Be Consumed in Suffering for His Love” *
chapter 3|21 pages
Anti-Liberal Violence in Belgium
part II|62 pages
Contending Clericalism
chapter 4|20 pages
Collective Violence and the Religious Politicization of Peasants on the Habsburg Periphery
chapter 5|22 pages
Between the Soldiers of Pius IX and the Sons of Saint Felicitas
chapter 6|18 pages
Religion and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Argentina
part III|58 pages
Resisting Religious Pluralization
chapter 7|17 pages
From Violent Acts to Violent Hatred
part IV|64 pages
Imposing a Catholic Order
chapter 10|22 pages
Violence in Circulation?
chapter 11|20 pages
Catholic Missionaries in Central Africa
chapter 12|20 pages
“The Children Grow Up Without Discipline”
part V|61 pages
Opposing Catholic Invasion
chapter 13|19 pages
Pageantry in the Shadow of Violence
chapter 15|19 pages
Occasional Martyrs
part VI|12 pages
Conclusions