Religious nationalism, racism, and raza hispánica (“Hispanic race”) in Constantino Bayle’s, S.J. (1882–1953) missiology (A publication history approach)

This article focuses on the career of the Jesuit priest, Constantino Bayle, as a historian of Spanish Catholic missions and promoter of state-sponsored arrangements that institutionalized nationalist religious historiography. He encoded religious nationalism and racist categories in academic discour...

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Published in:Critical research on religion
Main Author: Roldán-Figueroa, Rady 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2022
In: Critical research on religion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bayle, Constantino 1882-1953 / Spain / Jesuits / Catholicism / Nationalism / Fascism
RelBib Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
CH Christianity and Society
KBH Iberian Peninsula
KBR Latin America
Further subjects:B Society of Jesus
B Religious Nationalism
B Fascism
B Catholic missions
B Latin America
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Summary:This article focuses on the career of the Jesuit priest, Constantino Bayle, as a historian of Spanish Catholic missions and promoter of state-sponsored arrangements that institutionalized nationalist religious historiography. He encoded religious nationalism and racist categories in academic discourse and terminology, elevating in this way racist assumptions and renewed imperialist aspirations to the level of official historiography. The article traces Bayle’s early career as an Americanista at the Spanish Catholic periodical, Razón y Fe. Bayle was an ardent supporter of Francisco Franco’s military uprising of 1936. He was an apologist for Falange Española who defended its Catholic character. Alongside other Jesuits, he was responsible for forging a Spanish school of missiology that was predicated upon the tenets of Spanish national Catholicism and that was meant to rival analogous Protestant and Roman Catholic historiographic projects. Central to this culturalist endeavor were the notions of Hispanidad and Raza Hispanica.
ISSN:2050-3040
Contains:Enthalten in: Critical research on religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/20503032221075378