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Anticlericalismo is a category for books that critique and resist the political, social, and cultural power of clerical institutions, advocating limits on or separation between church and state. These works examine how religious hierarchies shape governance, education, morality, and everyday life, often highlighting abuses of authority, privileges, censorship, or conflicts of interest. Spanning history, political theory, sociology, and literature, the genre includes manifestos, essays, investigative histories, memoirs, and novels or satires that dramatize struggles between secular reformers and ecclesiastical authority. While not necessarily anti-religious, anticlerical books focus on institutional critique, civil liberties, secularization, and the modernization of public life. Readers may encounter case studies from France’s laïcité, Spain and Portugal’s liberal revolutions, Italy’s Risorgimento, and Mexico’s Reform and Cristero periods, alongside contemporary debates. As a shelf, Anticlericalismo gathers voices that question the scope of clerical power and imagine civic arrangements grounded in pluralism, rational inquiry, and equal citizenship.

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