Stephen J. C. Andes

Mysterious Sofia (eBook, ePUB)

One Woman's Mission to Save Catholicism in Twentieth-Century Mexico

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Produktbeschreibung

Who was the "Mysterious Sofía," whose letter in November 1934 was sent from Washington DC to Mexico City and intercepted by the Mexican Secret Service? In The Mysterious Sofía Stephen J. C. Andes uses the remarkable story of Sofía del Valle to tell the history of Catholicism's global shift from north to south and the importance of women to Catholic survival and change over the course of the twentieth century. As a devout Catholic single woman, neither nun nor mother, del Valle resisted religious persecution in an era of Mexican revolutionary upheaval, became a labor activist in a time of class conflict, founded an educational movement, toured the United States as a public lecturer, and raised money for Catholic ministries-all in an age dominated by economic depression, gender prejudice, and racial discrimination. The rise of the Global South marked a new power dynamic within the Church as Latin America moved from the margins of activism to the vanguard. Del Valle's life and the stories of those she met along the way illustrate the shared pious practices, gender norms, and organizational networks that linked activists across national borders. Told through the eyes of a little-known laywoman from Mexico, Andes shows how women journeyed from the pews into the heart of the modern world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496218186
• Artikelnr.: 59624405

Autorenporträt

Stephen J. C. Andes is an associate professor of history at Louisiana State University. He is the author of The Vatican and Catholic Activism in Mexico and Chile: The Politics of Transnational Catholicism, 1920–1940.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Nota Bene, Dear Reader
Prologue: De te fabula narratur
Part 1. The Mysterious Sofía
1. Days of the Dead
2. The Sophie Letters
3. Miss del Valle
4. The Mastermind
Interlude: Tere Huidobro
Part 2. A Family Romance
5. Little Flowers
6. Sofía’s Belle Époque
7. Vocation
8. Respectable Telephone Operator
9. Preparing the Future
Interlude: Family Albums
Part 3. Mexican Odyssey
10. The Catacombs
11. The Voyage
12. The Test
13. Gasparri’s Parrots
14. A Long, Hot Roman Summer
15. The Return
16. The Peace
Interlude: Las viejitas
Part 4. A Woman Alone
17. Out of the Shadows
18. The New Woman
19. Resistance
20. Les femmes internationales
21. Terrible Beasts
22. Winter in the City of Light
23. Doubt
24. Lourdes
25. The Road to Warsaw
26. Borders
27. Bridges
Interlude: Walls
Part 5. Catholic Vagabond
28. Miss del Valle Goes to Washington
29. The Plan
30. The Deception of Miss Duffy
31. Consider the Lobster
32. Golden Hour of the Little Flower
33. On the Road
34. La patria Calls
Postlude: Day’s End
Matins: A Few Days After
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index