Italy’s Christian Democracy: The Catholic Encounter with Political Modernity

2025/09/03 by Steve Soper · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Reformation and Early Modern Christianity #European Political History Analysis

paper · doi:10.1080/03612759.2025.2553404

openalex publication_date 2025/09/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14

Abstract

In 2016, Rosario Forlenza and Bjørn Thomassen published Italian Modernities, a study of four competing narratives of Italian modernity—liberal, Catholic, socialist-communist, and Fascist. The autho...

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