El alma del negocia y el negocio del alma: Testimonios sobre la Iglesia y la Sociedad en Cuba, 1878-1894 by Manuel Maza Miquel, S.J. (review)

BRIEF NOTICES14 1 McTighe, Michael J. A Measure ofSuccess: Protestants andPublic Culture in Antebellum Cleveland. (Albany: State University ofNewYork Press. 1994. Pp. xiv, 283. «21.95 paperback.) On Friday and Saturday, October 7 and 8, 1994, the Department ofAmerican Studies of Case Western Reserve University sponsored its annual symposium on some aspect of local history. In this instance the topic presented was the Origins of Religions in the Greater Cleveland Area. The symposium is always well attended; this year was no exception. What was unusual in this year's program was this. Two of the major papers that were presented focused on themes derived from the late Michael McTigue's new book, A Measure of Success: Protestants and Public Culture in Antebellum Cleveland In an area in which the local universities have been publishing, under various headings, countless professional studies ofboth ethnicity and religion in Cleveland , the McTigue book is unique. One would search in vain for any published work that attempts to do what McTigue has done so successfully. He has organized, and to a great extent, synthesized the huge volume of monographs as well as other primary research sources which are cited in the forty-twopage bibliography of this book. The selection of chapter topics—for example, the mobilization of the strength of the Protestant community and attempt to establish ethos of obligation in the whole debate about slavery—as well as the list of meticulously researched tables, twelve in number, gives insight hitherto non-existent which must be available to future research. Michael McTigue died on February 4, 1993, one month after he submitted his manuscript to the publisher. Clearly the book addresses topics relevant to a number of academic interests—urban history, women's studies, political history, ethnic history, social and religious history, temperance and anti-slavery movements. It is an excellent monument to his scholarship. NelsonJ. Callahan (Bay Village, Ohio) Maza Miquel, Manuel, SJ. El alma del negocio y el negocio del alma: Testimonios sobre la Iglesiay la Sociedad en Cuba, 1878-1894. (Santiago, República Dominicana: Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra. 1990. Pp. v, 120. Paperback.) This history is more than an account of Catholicism in the late nineteenth century. The author records a segment of Cuban religious history that reflects and intertwines with the social and political development of the national struggle for independence. Like other major institutions, the Church evolved empirically, just as the process of nation-building itself was experiential. 142BRIEF NOTICES This book does not attempt to chronicle or analyze the whole corpus of Cuban Catholicism, but to present a selective survey, emphasizing the relationship between the Church and society, from 1878 to 1894. The focus is intriguing; the work is well researched; it closely integrates the writings of major church leaders of the period, including Archbishop Martin Herrera, Bishop Manuel Santander, and Father Juan Bautista Casas, with the general history of Cuban Catholicism. Unfortunately, scant attention is given to the role of the laity. The main strength of this work is Maza's combining the fine-grained socioreligious description of the working conditions of the clergy with a more general analysis of their place in Cuban society and their political tendencies. Just as important is the author's examination of the practice of Catholicism and of the thought of the Cuban bishops and clergy in this period. In short, this book is an excellent sociological analysis of the relationships between day-to-day conditions inwhich the clergy found themselves andwhich affected their consciousness and the larger political conditions in which their lives were situated. Maza has contributed a needed segment of Cuban religious history. His book provides facts and a chronology, valuable tools for future historians. Since the author is a native of Cuba and has done extensive research on the Cuban church in the nineteenth century, he is a well-qualified historian for such work. And, while his account gives us a more complete picture of the local church in transition, a major flaw in this otherwise well-designed book is the limited number of primary sources. Nevertheless, an important aspect ofMaza's work is that he has shown that the Cuban church in the revolutionary...