For God and Liberty: Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790-1861
Pamela Voekel
Feb 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Katie Koster
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The Age of Revolution has traditionally been understood as an era of secularization, giving the transition from monarchy to independent republics through democratic movements a genealogy that assumes hostility to Catholicism. By centering the story on Spanish and Latin American actors, Pamela Voekel argues that at the heart of this nineteenth-century transformation in Spanish America was a transatlantic Catholic civil war. Voekel demonstrates Reform Catholicism's significance to the thought and action of the rebel literati who led decolonization efforts in Mexico and Central America, showing how each side of this religious divide operated from within a self-conscious intercontinental network of like-minded Catholics. For its central protagonists, the era's crisis of sovereignty provided a political stage for a religious struggle. Drawing on ecclesiastical archives, pamphlets, sermons, and tracts, For God and Liberty reveals how the violent struggles of decolonization and the period before and after Independence are more legible in light of the fault lines within the Church.
About the author
Pamela Voekel is associate professor of history and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of the prize-winning Alone Before God: The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico and is a cofounder of the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas.
A multi-award-winning narrator, Katie Koster holds a BA in theater and math from Boston College. She lends a sense of humor, intellect, and character variety to her narration, along with her empathy and acclaimed emotional range.
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