New PDF release: Faith and Fascism: Catholic Intellectuals in Italy, 1925–43

By Jorge Dagnino

it is a research of the Federazione Universitaria Cattolica Italiana (FUCI) among 1925 and 1943, the enterprise of Catholic motion for the collage zone. The FUCI is extremely major to the examine of Catholic politics and highbrow principles, as a wide share of the long run Christian Democrats who governed the rustic after global warfare II have been shaped in the ranks of the federation. In broader phrases, this can be a contribution to the historiography of Fascist Italy and of Catholic politics and mentalities in Europe within the mid- 20th century. It units out to turn out the basic ideological, political, social and cultural impacts of Catholicism at the making of contemporary Italy and the way it used to be inextricably associated with extra secular forces within the shaping of the state and the demanding situations confronted by means of an rising mass society. additionally, the e-book explores the impact exercised by means of Catholicism on eu attitudes in the direction of modernisation and modernity, and the way Catholicism has usually led the way in which within the look for a spiritual replacement modernity which can countervail the perceived deleterious results of the Western liberal model of modernity.

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