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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.
List of contents
Introduction
Violence and the Negotiation of Difference: Nineteenth-Century Catholic Encounters with the Religious and Secular Other
Eveline G. Bouwers
Part 1: Rejecting Secularization Chapter 1
Religion and Violence during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Between Tradition and Modernity
Philip Dwyer
Chapter 2
"To Be Consumed in Suffering for His Love": Violence, Religion, and Counterrevolution in Restoration Spain
Mary Vincent
Chapter 3
Anti-Liberal Violence in Belgium: Catholics in Defiance of State Legislation, 1857-1884
Eveline G. Bouwers
Part 2: Contending Clericalism
Chapter 4
Collective Violence and the Religious Politicization of Peasants on the Habsburg Periphery:
Rabatz and Antisemitic Riots in West Galicia, 1846-1898
Tim Buchen
Chapter 5
Between the Soldiers of Pius IX and the Sons of Saint Felicitas: Catholic Pluralism and
Religionero Violence in Michoacán, Mexico, 1873-1877
Brian A. Stauffer
Chapter 6
Religion and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Argentina: Teachings from the 1875 Anticlerical Riots
Roberto Di Stefano
Part 3: Resisting Religious Pluralization
Chapter 7
From Violent Acts to Violent Hatred: French Catholic Responses to the Damascus and Dreyfus Affairs
Julie Kalman
Chapter 8
The Trillick Railway Outrage: The Politics of Atrocity in Post-Famine Ulster
Sean Farrell
Chapter 9
Catholicism and Violence in Korea: Two Case Studies from the Chos¿n Dynasty
Franklin Rausch
Part 4: Imposing a Catholic Order
Chapter 10
Violence in Circulation? Missionaries, Local Population, and Colonial Politics during the German War on the East African Coast, 1888-1889
Richard Hölzl
Chapter 11
Catholic Missionaries in Central Africa: Violence and the Creation of Religious Statehood in South Eastern Congo during the Partition Era, 1867-1914
Reuben A. Loffman
Chapter 12
"The Children Grow Up Without Discipline": Religion, Childhood, and Violence in Colonial New Guinea around 1900
Katharina Stornig
Part 5: Opposing Catholic Invasion
Chapter 13
Pageantry in the Shadow of Violence: Celebrating Fête-Dieu in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Montreal
Dan Horner
Chapter 14
The Popery Panic: Nativism, Anti-Catholicism, and Violence in Antebellum America
Cassandra L. Yacovazzi
Chapter 15
Occasional Martyrs: Catholic Life in Nineteenth-Century China between Coexistence and Subjugation
Lars Peter Laamann
Part 6: Conclusions
Chapter 16
Parameters of Religion-Related Violence in Modern History
Eveline G. Bouwers
About the author
Eveline G. Bouwers is Senior Fellow of the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany, and a comparative scholar of modern Europe. Her research focuses on the history of religion-related protest, violence, and blasphemy. Other research interests include remembrance cultures and monument-making, mainly in the nineteenth century.
Summary
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.
