Ahab and the white whale: the contemporary debate around the forms of Catholic political commitment in Italy

For more than the half of its republican history, the Italian political landscape was dominated by the Christian Democrats – a religiously inspired conservative political party. After its collapse, the possibility of creating a new (or renewed) Catholic party has been widely debated. This contributi...

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Published in:Democratization
Main Author: Giorgi, Alberta
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Christian Democracy
religious party
Italian politic
religion and politic
Catholicism
Settore SPS/08 - Sociologia dei Processi Culturali e Comunicativi
Settore SPS/07 - Sociologia Generale
Settore SPS/11 - Sociologia dei Fenomeni Politici
Ahab
Monti
White whale
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10446/118091
https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2013.801257
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Summary:For more than the half of its republican history, the Italian political landscape was dominated by the Christian Democrats – a religiously inspired conservative political party. After its collapse, the possibility of creating a new (or renewed) Catholic party has been widely debated. This contribution focuses on how different areas of Italian Catholicism present the issue of a possible unified Catholic political commitment: what is in their opinion the unifying criterion and what shape the Catholics’ political commitment should take. Data are based on the analysis of articles from Catholic magazines and daily newspapers in the period between September 2008 and spring 2012, thus including the Monti cabinet (November 2011–February 2013).

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