La campaña contra los sacerdotes pederastas (1880-1912): un ejemplo de «pánico moral» en la España de la Restauración

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10498/20947
DOI: 10.3989/hispania.2018.018
ISSN: 0018-2141
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Vázquez García, Francisco
Date
2018-12-31Department
Historia, Geografía y FilosofíaSource
Hispania. Revista Española de Historia, vol. LXXVIII, nº. 260, septiembre-diciembre, pp. 759-786Abstract
This article analyses the campaign promoted by the anticlerical republican press in Restoration Spain against the abuses committed by «paedophile» priests. Based on approximately 400 news items on the subject,
taken from the anticlerical press of the time (1880-1912), a total of 151
cases related to pederasty abuses perpetrated by the clergy have been
verified. The methodology used is based on the American sociology of
«moral panics». After introducing the problem, the sources and chronology, the phases that mark the construction process of this moral panic
regarding pederast priests are delineated. Attention is then drawn to the
parallelism between the aforementioned journalistic campaign and the
growing anticlerical offensive between 1898 and 1912. Finally, the journalistic crusade against paedophile priests is analysed as a political
catalyst for struggles that also involve the domination of gender, age and
social class