Les catholiques dans l'Espagne franquiste

The Spanish civil war appeared to be, in our century, the last of the European wars of religion, and the Franco régime, the last spécimen of an anachronistic confessional Catholic state. But despite the Catholic sanction to the counter-revolutionary " Crusade " of 1936-1939, the jurisdictional conflict between Church and State was the central élément of the political dynamics of the Franco era. The présent volume analyses the religious actors of this conflict, as well as the stakes of the Church-State relation and the mechanisms for the expression of pluralism in an authoritarian régime. Beyond the Spanish case, it traces the difficult itinerary of a Catholicism long tempted by dictatorial experiments, and which became finally their most décisive opponent.