[Rezension von: Domenico, Roy P., The Devil and the Dolce Vita: Catholic Attempts to Save Italy’s Soul, 1948-1974]
In the aftermath of World War II, secularizing forces emerged that challenged the Christian character and Catholic identity of Italy. Rapid economic growth led people to pursue worldly pleasures, while burgeoning communist and socialist parties pressed for church-state separation. Pope Pius XII resp...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2023
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2023, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 275-277 |
| Review of: | The devil and the Dolce vita (Washington, DC : The Catholic University of America Press, 2021) (Stine, Vincent)
The devil and the Dolce vita (Washington, DC : The Catholic University of America Press, 2021) (Stine, Vincent) The devil and the Dolce vita ([Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Catholic University of America Press, 2021) (Stine, Vincent) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Catholic church
/ Italy
/ History 1948-1970
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBJ Italy SA Church law; state-church law |
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Book review
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| Summary: | In the aftermath of World War II, secularizing forces emerged that challenged the Christian character and Catholic identity of Italy. Rapid economic growth led people to pursue worldly pleasures, while burgeoning communist and socialist parties pressed for church-state separation. Pope Pius XII responded to these threats with a far-reaching campaign to revive the influence of the Catholic Church in the republic. While the lay organization, Catholic Action (AC), helped the Church further its spiritual objectives, the religious body needed the assistance of a political party, the Christian Democrats (DC), to advance its temporal agenda. In the critical 1948 election, Pius XII backed DC, asserting that a vote for DC was a vote for Christ. DC won, giving the pope considerable power within the cleric-backed regime ... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csad007 |