revolutionary anticlericalism and hegemonic processes in an Andalusian town, August 1936

Abstract

Anthropologists and social historians have debated whether the participants in violent attacks on the church and clergy in Spain during the Civil War period were “millenarian” protestants whose actions sprang from a premodern sociopolitical mentality or were pragmatic radicals whose actions simply represented a series of well‐calculated attacks on a key ideological institution. In analyzing the events leading to anticlerical violence in an Andalusian town, this article argues that the attacks were the outcome of hegemonic processes of differing scope, intensity, and duration. Neither pure traditionalists nor modernists, the revolutionary anticlericals of August 1936 sought to define the specific character of the present in ways that were gauged to have the maximum effect on their allies and adversaries alike. The article discusses implications of these findings for analyses of “tradition,” “modernity,” and contemporary sociopolitical movements. [hegemonic processes, Spain, anticlericalism, tradition, modernity, social movements]

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