DĚJINNÝ KONTEXT A SOUČASNÉ PODOBY AMERICKÉHO POLITICKÉHO KATOLICISMU
THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF AMERICAN POLITICAL CATHOLICISM
Author(s): Roman MíčkaSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Keywords: American Political Catholicism; Catholics in the USA; Catholic Social Thought; Christianity and Politics; Liberal Catholicism; Conservative Catholicism; Culture War
Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the historical and current forms of political expressions of Catholicism in the USA. With a focus on the specific role of religion in the American political context, and on the historical development of the American Catholic community, it explores the plurality of opinions on the application of values which arise from Catholicism in the social and political setting. The context of ideological orientations and personalities are included both from the areas of the liberal Catholic and conservative Catholic – neoconservative and paleoconservative – spectrum.
Journal: Studia theologica
- Issue Year: XV/2013
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 73-100
- Page Count: 28
- Language: Czech