Marian Devotions, Political Mobilization, and Nationalism in Europe and America

This volume examines the changing role of Marian devotion in politics, public life, and popular culture in Western Europe and America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book brings together, for the first time, studies on Marian devotions across the Atlantic, tracing their role as a rallying point to fight secularization, adversarial ideologies, and rival religions.
This transnational approach illuminates the deep transformations of devotional cultures across the world. Catholics adopted modern means and new types of religious expression to foster mass devotions that epitomized the catholic essence of the nation. In many ways, the development of Marian devotions across the world is also a response to the questioning of Pope Sovereignty. These devotional transformations followed an Ultramontane pattern inspired not only by Rome but also by other successful models approved by the Vatican such as Lourdes. Collectively, they shed new light on the process of globalization and centralization of Catholicism.

Brings together scholars studying Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, United States, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Belgium, and Germany Unearths similarities between the political uses of different Marian devotions in modern cultural struggles Contributes significantly to the study of the processes of globalization, homogenization, hierarchization, and centralization of Catholicism

Auteur
Roberto Di Stefano is Researcher of Conicet (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina) and Professor at the University of La Pampa, Argentina. His publications include Historia de la Iglesia argentina . De la conquista a fines del siglo XX, co-authored with Loris Zanatta, El púlpito y la plaza. Clero, sociedad y política de la monarquía católica a la república rosista, and Ovejas negras. Historia de los anticlericales argentinos.
Francisco Javier Ramón Solans is Research Assistant at the University of Münster, Germany. He is the author of La Virgen del Pilar dice Usos políticos y nacionales de un culto mariano en la España contemporánea . He has published several articles and books chapters on Marian devotions, political prophecies and Ultramontanism.

Contenu

1. Introduction; Roberto Di Stefano and Francisco Javier Ramón Solans.- Part I. Europe.- 2. Liturgical Creativity and Marian Solemnity: The Coronation of Pilgrimage Virgin Maries In France (1853-1964); Claude Langlois.- 3. Politics Of The Sacred: Lourdes, France And Rome; Christian Sorrel.- 4. Marpingen: A Remote Village and Its Virgin in A Transnational Context; Olaf Blaschke.- 5. The Virgin Of Begoña And The Fight For The City: An Example Of Culture War In The Spain Of The Restoration (Vizcaya, 1880-1904); Joseba Louzao.- 6. A New Lourdes in Spain. The Virgin of El Pilar, Mass Devotion, National Symbolism, and Political Mobilization; Francisco Javier Ramón.- 7. Fatima and the Politics of Devotion. Sandra Zimdars-Swartz (The Univeristy Of Kansas).- 8. The Virgin Mary, State and Nation in Transcarpathian Ukraine; Agnieszka Halemba.- Part II. America.- 9. The Virgen of Guadalupe and the Americas: Migration And Movement; Linda B. Hall.- 10. Our Lady of Juquila: Nation, Region, and Marian Devotions; Edward Wright-Rios.- 11. Our Lady of Luján. National Identity and Mass Mobilization in Argentina; Roberto Di Stefano and Diego Mauro.- 12. The Virgin of Verdún and the Political Struggle against Secularization in Uruguay; Susana Monreal.