Social roots of the Spanish anticlericalism

Historia Contemporánea

Abstract

This paper outlines the scope and possible phases of a social anticlericalism in nineteenth-century Spain. In parallel with the growing divorce between the more progressive and revolutionary sector and the institutional Church, considered as an obstacle to the advance of progress and freedom, new forms of attention to the most vulnerable appear and those inherited from modern times remain with many difficulties. Adaptation and change, contempt and commitment. Once again, the most disadvantaged people remain on the margins of workers’ demands and ideological struggle during the shaping of the new liberal state.