The Ideological Accommodation of Political Catholicism in Slovenia (The examples of Ušeničnik's "value theory" and Mahnič's "definition of a nation" and "national sovereignty") Cover Image

Akomodacija ideologije političnega katolicizma na Slovenskem - primer Ušeničnikove "teorije vrednosti", Mahničeve "definicije naroda" in "suverenosti ljudstva"
The Ideological Accommodation of Political Catholicism in Slovenia (The examples of Ušeničnik's "value theory" and Mahnič's "definition of a nation" and "national sovereignty")

Author(s): Egon Pelikan
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History of ideas, Political history, Government/Political systems, Politics and religion, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Sociology of Politics, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino
Keywords: Slovenia; Slovenian politics; political history; political catholocism; ideology; nation; nation sovereignty; 19th century; 1900-1941; Catholic camps;

Summary/Abstract: In the paper the author deals with the question of the ideological accommodation of political Catholicism in Slovenia, from the end of the nineteenth century to World War II. He presents the attitude of two leading Slovene ideologists of political Catholicism (Anton Mahnič and Aleš Ušeničnik) towards some crucial social questions (those regarding national identity, sovereignty and value theory), exposes their common features and strategies with regards to modernisation, and arrives at a conclusion that their views were changing and even became self-contradictory. The process of accommodation was conditioned by individual political interests and ideological disorientation in the Catholic camp caused by rapid modernisation.

  • Issue Year: 35/1995
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 49-65
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Slovenian