By the Grace of God : Francoist Spain and the Sacred Roots of Political Imagination.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: La España Sagrada as a Political Category -- Francoist Spain, Post-Secularism, and a Sacred Politics -- The Sacred's Slippage into the Profane -- The Sacred and Metaphysics -- Spain's "Time of the Sacred": Literature as a Political Matter -- Iberian Studies: A Parallax View -- 2 "He aquí una plenitud española": Catholicism, Cultural Regeneration, and Spanish Essentialism -- Por dios hacia el imperio: Spanish First Causes -- Nineteenth-Century Spain: Cuando la legalidad no basta -- Spanish Regenerationism: Displacing the Sacred onto the Secular -- Catholicism as a Social Force: 1936 -- 3 Politics by Other Means: The Sacred Core of Collective Imagining -- Post-War Stimmung -- (Prot)agonizing Existence -- The Scapegoat Mechanism and the Mimetic Reduction of Difference -- Beyond the Victimary Principle -- 4 Intimate Strife: Inside Juan Goytisolo's Sovereign Exception -- Against Sacred Forms -- Conde Julián's Inclusive Exclusion -- Human, All Too Human -- A New Nomos of the Earth? -- 5 The Eternal Present of Sacred Time -- In illo tempore -- Numa's Sacred Wood -- Killing Time: Ritual Death and the Origin of the Sacred -- 6 "De-sacralization" and "Sacro-genesis," or How to Step Outside of Sacred Time -- Sacred Dialectics -- Le regard d'autrui: The State's Loving Embrace -- Rerouting Sacred Time: Tiempo de destrucción -- 7 Espriu's Sepharad and the Equitable Restoration of Sacred Sovereignty -- Sacrifice and the Poetic Expulsion of Self -- The Sacred Bonds of Kinship -- Death by the Pen: Les hores -- Espriu's Kehre: El caminant i el mur -- Final del laberint: Redeeming a Lost Religiousness -- Rethinking Iberia: A New Temple of Sacred Communion -- 8 Conclusion: The Aesthetic Disruption of Political Truth -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Using Franco's Spain and la España sagrada as a counterpoint to European secularity's own development, By the Grace of God is the first sustained analysis within Spanish cultural studies of the sacred as a political category and a tool for political organization.

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