Abstract

espanolEl presente articulo, a traves de boletines oficiales eclesiasticos y manuales de Religion, compara la gestion del sentimiento del miedo que hace la Iglesia catolica espanola antes y despues del Concilio Vaticano II. Comprueba la erosion de los miedos naturales, a las epidemias, el hambre, la guerra… (la humanizacion de Dios no parece compatible con su ira), de los miedos escatologicos, donde mas pesaban los elementos sensitivos del miedo (la repolitizacion de la religion catolica situa el miedo cada vez mas en lugares profanos), o incluso el miedo al otro no catolico (ecumenismo). Pero comprueba tambien, especialmente en los manuales de la Iglesia neointegrista, el mantenimiento de otros miedos inducidos, donde se imponen claramente los elementos cognitivos del miedo: miedo a la secularizacion de la ciencia y del pensamiento, a la perdida de influencia en la sociedad, a las novedades del Concilio Vaticano II, a la teologia de la liberacion, al laicismo o a la perdida de la proteccion del Estado con que cuenta la Iglesia catolica espanola. Es problematico, por tanto, afirmar, como hacen algunos autores, que el Concilio Vaticano II supone el paso de una institucion estatalmente orientada a otra orientada a la sociedad. EnglishThis article uses ecclesiastical records and textbooks of Religion to make comparisons regarding the way in which the Spanish Catholic Church administered the emotion of fear before and after Vatican Council II. We see evidence of the erosion of natural fears: epidemics, hunger, war... (the humanization of God does not seem compatible with his anger), of scatological fears, where the sensory elements of fear weigh most heavily (the repoliticization of the Catholic religion increasingly puts fear in more profane places), or even the fear of the non-Catholic other (ecumenism). But the texts also corroborate, especially in the neo-integrationist Church manuals, the perseverance of other induced fears, where the cognitive elements of fear are clearly imposed: fear of the secularization of science and of thought, of the loss of the Church’s influence in society, of the reforms coming from Vatican Council II, of the theology of liberation, of secularism or of the loss of the state protection that the Spanish Catholic Church had always enjoyed. As a result we find it contentious to state, as some authors do, that the Vatican Council II signaled a change from a Stateoriented institution to a society-oriented one.

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