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Catholicism in the Second Spanish Republic : religion and politics in Salamanca, 1930-1936

The Second Spanish Republic survived unchallenged for a mere five years, its fall plunging Spain into a bitter civil war. The brief political history of the Republic was characterized by the rapid polarization of right and left - a process in which religion played a crucial role. Many of the ordinary faithful came to feel excluded from the new Republic, whilst those who aspired to lead them insisted that to be Catholic was to be anti-republican

Print Book, English, 1996
Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, Oxford, Oxford, 1996