Catholics and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Global World

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. Catholics and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Global World is the first study to systematically analyze the link between faith and violent action in modern history. Focusing on incidents involving members of the Roman Catholic Church across the globe, the book offers a kaleidoscopic overview of situations in which physical or symbolic violence attended inner-Catholic, Catholic-secular, and interreligious conflicts. Focusing especially on the role of agency, the authors explore the motives behind, perceptions of, and legitimation strategies for religion-related violence, as well as evaluating debates about conflict and discussing the role of religious leadership in violent incidents. Additionally, they illuminate the complex ways in which religious grievances interacted with secular differences and highlight the plurality of Catholic standpoints. In doing so, the book brings to light the variety of ways in which religion and violence have interacted historically. Showing that the link between faith and violence was more nuanced than theoreticians of 'religious violence' suggest, the book will appeal to historians, social scientists, and religious scholars.

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.

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 Choson 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