La Iglesia en la España contemporánea/1

Synopsis of La Iglesia en la España contemporánea/1

«La Iglesia en la España contemporánea/1» is the historical essay by José Andrés-Gallego and Antón M. Pazos, published in paperback by Encuentro (426 pages).

Starting from the clichés about a Catholic or anticlerical Spain, this essay studies the Church and religion as historical realities in Spain from 1800 to 1936. It analyses Spanish historical identity and the polemical weight of the religious, with attention to the institutional, doctrinal and sociological.

First volume of a two-part study on the Church in Spain; the second covers 1936-1998. Number 141 of the «Essay. History» collection.

For readers interested in the history of Spain, the history of the Church and the debate on the country's religious identity.