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

• 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

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...