The Spirit of Vatican II: Western European Progressive Catholicism in the Long Sixties - Hardcover

Horn, Gerd-Rainer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199593256 ISBN 13: 9780199593255

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2015

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He has produced a highly scholarly work of singular importance, one that is credible, authoritative, and remarkably complete. It requires and deserves to be read carefully ... Horn is brilliant at capturing the overlap between the visions of a radical theology and the movements its proponents endorsed ... The best way of appraising this work is to treat it as the definitive benchmark for understanding the rise and fall of progressive Catholicism in the countries selected for study. (Kieran Flanagan, Catholic Social Science Review)

an absolutely fascinating book (Patrick Gruson, Archives de sciences sociales des religions)

Horn's impressive book will be the essential starting-point for all future work in this field. (Hugh McLeod, Catholic Historical Review)

Gerd-Rainer Horn presents us with a trendsetting volume which will provide new momentum to research on European religious and social history of the 1960s and 1970s. (Johannes Wischmeyer, SEHEPUNKTE)

By means of the methodology of comparative political science, Horn thus reintroduces into the history of the New Left actors and movements that have been relegated to the shadows for a long time and that, moreover, had contributed significantly to its political culture and key ideas. (Alessandro Santagata, Il Manifesto)

Horn's book deserves to be read widely by students and scholars of social movements, the history of the Left, church history, and post-war western European history. (Hugh McDonnell, CritCom)

Reseña del editor

Vatican II profoundly changed the outlook and the message of the Catholic Church. After decades, if not centuries, in which Catholic public opinion appeared to be primarily oriented towards the distant past and bygone societal models, suddenly the Catholic Church embraced the world as it was, and it joined in the struggle to create a radiant future.

The Sixties were a time of great socio-cultural and political ferment in Europe as a whole. Especially the second half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s witnessed an astounding range of 'new' and 'old' social movements reaching for the sky. Catholic activists provided fuel to the fire in more ways than one. Catholics had embarked on the quest for new horizons for some years prior to the sudden growth of secular activism in and around the magic year of 1968. When secular radicals joined up with Catholic activists, a seemingly unstoppable dynamic was unleashed.

This book covers five crucial contributions by Catholic communities to the burgeoning atmosphere of those turbulent years: a) the theological innovations of Vatican II, which made such an unprecedented engagement of Catholics possible in the first place, but also post-conciliar theological developments; b) the resurgence of the worker priest experiment, and the first-ever creation of autonomous organisations of radical parish priests; c) the simultaneous creation of grassroots organisations - base communities - by (mostly) lay activists across the continent; d) the crucial roles of Catholic students in the multiform student movements shaping Europe in these years; e) the indispensable contributions of Catholic workers who helped shape - and often initiated - the wave of militant contestations shaking up labour relations after 1968.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0199593256
• ISBN 13: 9780199593255
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276