RT Article
T1 Participation of Italian Communists in Catholic Rituals: A Case Study
JF Journal for the scientific study of religion
VO 14
IS 1
SP 1
OP 11
A1 Kertzer, David I. 1948-
LA English
YR 1975
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1668070685
AB The nature of participation of Italian Communists in the ritual of the Catholic Church is examined. Two models are presented--a normative marxist model excluding Church participation by Communists and a popular Italian model which portrays the mass of Communists as being fundamentally Catholic. Neither model is found to be satisfactory in light of the evidence from the locality under study. It is found that the great majority of the Communists continue to turn to the Church for rites of passage. At the same time, however, the Communist Party has to a great extent supplanted the local churches as the sponsor of "rites of community."
K1 Catholicism
K1 Church services
K1 Communism
K1 Communist parties
K1 Priests
K1 rites of passage
K1 Weddings
DO 10.2307/1384451