LOS PROTESTANTES ESPAÑOLES: LA DOBLE LUCHA POR LA LIBERTAD DURANTE EL PRIMER FRANQUISMO (1939-1953)

Authors

  • Juan B. Vilar

Keywords:

Protestants, intolerance, religious persecution, Spain, the United States, Vatican, the XX<sup>th</sup> C

Abstract

At the beginning of Franco period between 1939 (the end of the Civil War) and 1953 (its international consolidation) the Spanish evangelical Christians were the target of a hard repression due to their doble condition as Protestants and democrats. That repression was ignored by the Spanish Catholic Church, that identified itself with the above mentioned rule within the frame of the new confessional Estate. On the other hand, the lack of religious freedom revealed itself as a serious obstacle in the inevitable process of repproachment of Washington to the pro-Franco Spain within the international context of the cold war. This stage of absolute intolerance against the evangelical minority in Spain ended in 1953, year in which both the concordat with the Vatican and the agreements with the United States took place.

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Author Biography

Juan B. Vilar

Universidad de Murcia

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Section

Las comunidades evangélicas en nuestro tiempo: de la intolerancia a la libertad y el ecumenismo