Politics and Religion in Italy: A Catholic History  Cover Image

Политика и религија у Италији: католичка историја
Politics and Religion in Italy: A Catholic History

Author(s): Simone C. Martino
Subject(s): History
Published by: Центар за проучавање религије и верску толеранцију
Keywords: Politics; Italy; civil religion; Catholic Church

Summary/Abstract: The paper looks at the historical and contemporary role of Catholic Church in Italian politics. Over the last sixty years Catholicism has played an important role in Italian society. The paper identify three ways in which Catholicism interacts with Italian public life: as a peculiar version of “civil religion”, through Catholic inspirited political parties and the Church intervening directly in specific public debates. After identifies the change of political role of the Catholic Church in the last decades the paper recognize the main challenges for this particular relationship in the next future.

  • Issue Year: IX/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 233-247
  • Page Count: 15
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