
Cold War Mary
Ideologies, Politics, and Marian Devotional Culture
Edited by Peter Jan Margry
First-ever study connecting the Cold War to the field of popular religiosity and Marian devotion
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.
Contributors: Michael Agnew (McMaster University), Marina Sanahuja Beltran (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), William A. Christian, Jr. (Independent, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), Deirdre de la Cruz (University of Michigan), Agnieszka Halemba (University of Warsaw), Thomas Kselman (University of Notre Dame), Peter Jan Margry (University of Amsterdam / Meertens Institute), Katharine Massam (University of Divinity, Melbourne), David Morgan (Duke University), Konrad Siekierski (King’s College London), Tine van Osselaer (University of Antwerp), Robert Ventresca (Western University Canada), Daniel Wojcik (University of Oregon) and Sandra L. Zimdars-Swartz (University of Kansas)
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).CHURCH AND IDEOLOGIES
3. From Fátima to Kérizinen 85
4. Likeness and Message in Our Lady of Fátima from World War to Cold War
POLITICO-DEVOTIONAL REALMS
6. Darkness at Noon
7. Apparitions of the Mother of God in Socialist Poland in the Early Years of the Cold War
8. Marian Piety and the Cold War in the United States
9. The Virgin and the Bomb
10. “Wearing Uneasily the Mantle of Peace”
ARMIES AND CRUSADES
12. Contested Cold War Marian Politics
13. Mary’s Media in the Cold War Philippines
14. “No Consecration, No Peace!”
15. Conclusion and Outlook
Timeline
Authors
Format: Edited volume - paperback
Size: 238 × 170 × 23 mm
400 pages
ISBN: 9789462702516
Publication: January 28, 2021
Series: KADOC-Studies on Religion, Culture and Society 28
Languages: English
Stock item number: 139584