Alcide De Gasperi and Antonio Messineo: a Spiritual Idea of Politics and a Pragmatic Idea of Religion?
Examining and interconnecting two parallel lives, this article presents the abstract thoughts of a religious scholar vis-à-vis international political issues and the evolution of the attitude and sensibility of a political leader who found inspiration in his intimate religious convictions. The subje...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2009
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Religion, state & society
Year: 2009, Volume: 37, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 115-129 |
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| Summary: | Examining and interconnecting two parallel lives, this article presents the abstract thoughts of a religious scholar vis-à-vis international political issues and the evolution of the attitude and sensibility of a political leader who found inspiration in his intimate religious convictions. The subjects of this study are Antonio Messineo, an international expert in politics and law and editor of the journal La Civiltà Cattolica, and Alcide De Gasperi, statesman and leader of the Italian Christian Democrat Party. The key features of their thought and actions are intimately interconnected and linked to the cultural and political context of their time. Specific attention is paid to the different approaches to European integration that Messineo and De Gasperi developed in the Christian cultural environment of post-Second World War Italy. The time-frame considered spans the period from the first years of the Italian economic, democratic and social reconstruction to the initiatives undertaken in the early 1950s for the institutional reorganisation of Western Europe. Though dealing in biographies, this paper is not a comparative biographical study, but aims to highlight the interdependence between culture and politics, theory and pragmatism. |
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| ISSN: | 1465-3974 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion, state & society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09637490802693841 |