Love and Despair (eBook)

How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico

Jaime M. Pensado (Autor)

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2023
374 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39297-7 (ISBN)

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Love and Despairexplores the multiple and mostly unknown ways progressive and conservative Catholic actors, such as priests, lay activists, journalists, intellectuals, and filmmakers, responded to the significant social and cultural shifts that formed competing notions of modernity in Cold War Mexico. Jaime M. Pensado demonstrates how the Catholic Church as a heterogeneous institutionwith key transnational networks in Latin America and Western Europewas invested in youth activism, state repression, and the counterculture from the postwar period to the more radical Sixties. Similar to their secular counterparts, progressive Catholics often saw themselves as revolutionary actors and nearly always framed their activism as an act of love. When their movements were repressed and their ideas were co-opted, marginalized, and commercialized at the end of the Sixties, the liberating hope of love often turned into a sense of despair.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Illustrations 
List of Abbreviations 
Acknowledgments

Introduction 

PART ONE
MODERNITY AND YOUTH

1 • Beauty, Cinema, and Female Youth Rebellion 
2 • Student Activism during the Cold War 

PART TWO
STATE VIOLENCE, PROGRESSIVE CATHOLICISM, AND RADICALIZATION

3 • Combative Journalism and Divisions within the Church 
4 • Responses to the Tlatelolco and Corpus Christi Massacres 
5 • The Thorny Questions of Armed Struggle and Socialism 

PART THREE Part 
THE COUNTERCULTURE, LIBERATION, AND THE ARTS

6 • La Onda as Liberation and the Making of La contracultura como protesta 
7 • Dialogue as Love and Countercultural Cinema at UNAM 
8 • Sexual Liberation and the Redemption of Homosexuality 
9 • Competing Interpretations of Los Cristeros and Violent Reactions to the Counterculture 

Conclusion 

Appendix 1. Cinematic Representations of Youth Rebellion (1941–ca. 1964) 
Appendix 2. Cinematic Representations of Youth, Liberation,the Counterculture, and Progressive 
Catholicism (ca. 1961–ca. 1978) 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.6.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• Schlagworte: 1960s counterculture in Mexico • Culture • Enrique Marroquín • Feminism • Film • la onda movement • liberation • Marxism • midcentury Mexican Catholic life • Protests • radicalism • religious and political history • Sexuality • Student Movement • students • The Church • Women
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39297-3 / 0520392973
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39297-7 / 9780520392977