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FAR-REACHING CONSEQUENCES OF A WRONG ATTRIBUTION: WAS THERE ANY CLERICALISM AMONG CROATS?
Jure Krišto
; Institut za suvremenu povijest, Zagreb, Hrvatska
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Standard evaluation of Croat historiography is that the end of the nineteenth century saw the appearance of clericalism, that is, an effort of the Catholic hierarchy to subject all social and political life to its control. One of its motors was allegedly the journal Hrvatska straža, which was started by bishop Antun Mahnić ninety years ago. Closely scrutinizing the times when the Journal appeared, the author shows that the judgment regarding clericalism is unfounded. It is true that the Catholic journal was overly sensitive to all social movements and that, being antagonistic to all new ideas, it contributed much to the antagonization of the Croat spiritual space at the turn of the century. Hoverer, the historians have not so far taken seriously into account the fact that there was opposition to the journal among Catholics themselves, and that otherwise there was much political pluralism among priests. Moreover, there was no serious attempt among Catholic priests to create an ideology on exclusively religious premises; the priesthood exclusively advocated secular ideologies.
The author suggests avoiding the term »clericalism« to designate the movement among Catholics from the turn of the century until the beginning of the World War I; he proposes the term »organized Catholicism«, instead.
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210116
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Datum izdavanja:
1.4.1994.
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