Cold War Mary

Peter Jan Margry • Boek • paperback

• Samenvatting
  One hardly known but fascinating aspect of the Cold War was the use of the holy Virgin Mary as a warrior against atheist ideologies. After the Second World War, there was a remarkable rise in the West of religiously inflected rhetoric against what was characterised as “godless communism”. The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church not only urged their followers to resist socialism, but along with many prominent Catholic laity and activist movements they marshaled the support of Catholics into a spiritual holy war. In this book renowned experts address a variety of grassroots and Church initiatives related to Marian politics, the hausse of Marian apparitions during the Cold War period, and the present-day revival of Marian devotional culture. By identifying and analysing the militant side of Mary in the Cold War context on a global scale for the first time, Cold War Mary will attract readers interested in religious history, history of the Cold War, and twentieth-century international history.
  
  One hardly known but fascinating aspect of the Cold War was the use of the holy Virgin Mary as a warrior against atheist ideologies. After the Second World War, there was a remarkable rise in the West of religiously inflected rhetoric against what was characterised as “godless communism”. The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church not only urged their followers to resist socialism, but along with many prominent Catholic laity and activist movements they marshaled the support of Catholics into a spiritual holy war. In this book renowned experts address a variety of grassroots and Church initiatives related to Marian politics, the hausse of Marian apparitions during the Cold War period, and the present-day revival of Marian devotional culture. By identifying and analysing the militant side of Mary in the Cold War context on a global scale for the first time, Cold War Mary will attract readers interested in religious history, history of the Cold War, and twentieth-century international history.
• Productinformatie
  Binding : Paperback
  Distributievorm : Boek (print, druk)
  Formaat : 174mm x 240mm
  Aantal pagina's : 400
  Uitgeverij : Leuven University Press
  ISBN : 9789462702516
  Datum publicatie : 01-2021
  
• Inhoudsopgave
  1. Envisioning and Exploring Mary’s Theater of War Peter Jan Margry CHURCH AND IDEOLOGIES 2. The Virgin Mary and Cold War Politics Pope, Church, and Devotees in the Context of Postwar Italy Robert Ventresca 3. From Fátima to Kérizinen 85 Devotional Backgrounds and Resources for the Cold War Sandra L. Zimdars-Swartz 4. Likeness and Message in Our Lady of Fátima from World War to Cold War David Morgan POLITICO-DEVOTIONAL REALMS 5. The Changing Face of the Enemy The Belgian Apparition Sites in the 1940s Tine Van Osselaer 6. Darkness at Noon The Visions at Cuevas de Vinromá in 1947 in a Divided Spain during the Cold War William A. Christian Jr. and Marina Sanahuja Beltran 7. Apparitions of the Mother of God in Socialist Poland in the Early Years of the Cold War Agnieszka Halemba and Konrad Siekierski 8. Marian Piety and the Cold War in the United States Thomas Kselman 9. The Virgin and the Bomb The Bayside Apparitions, Cold War Anxieties and Marian Anticommunism Daniel Wojcik 10. “Wearing Uneasily the Mantle of Peace” Marian Devotion and the Politics of Fear in Cold War Australia Katharine Massam ARMIES AND CRUSADES 11. Mission and Protection Bringing Fátima to West Germany in the Early Cold War Years Monique Scheer 12. Contested Cold War Marian Politics The Dutch Pentagon and the Empire of Mary Peter Jan Margry 13. Mary’s Media in the Cold War Philippines Deirdre de la Cruz 14. “No Consecration, No Peace!” The Fatima Center and the Russian Annexation of Crimea Michael Agnew 15. Conclusion and Outlook Peter Jan Margry Timeline Authors Index of Names and Places Colophon
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