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Love and despair : how Catholic activism shaped politics and the counterculture in modern Mexico / Jaime M. Pensado

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Pensado, Jaime M., 1972-
Published
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
Copyright Date
©2023
Physical Description
xvi, 357 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

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Contents
Introduction -- Beauty, cinema & female youth rebellion -- Student activism during the Cold War -- Combative journalism & divisions within the Church -- Responses to the Tlatelolco & Corpus Christi massacres -- The thorny questions of armed struggle & socialism -- La Onda Católica as liberation & the making of La contracultura como protesta -- Dialogue as love & countercultural cinema at UNAM -- Sexual liberation & the redemption of homosexuality -- Competing interpretations of Los Cristeros & violent reactions to the counterculture -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 : cinematic representations of youth rebellion (1941-c.1964) -- Appendix 2 : cinematic representations of youth, liberation, the counterculture, and progressive Catholicism (c.1961-c.1978)
Summary
"Love and Despair explores 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 Pensado demonstrates how the Catholic Church as a heterogenous institution, with key transnational networks in Latin America and Western Europe, was 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"--
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ISBN
9780520392953 (hardcover)
0520392957 (hardcover)
9780520392960 (paperback)
0520392965 (paperback)
9780520392977 (electronic publication)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-337) and index.
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