Original scientific paper
Post-revolutionary conservatism of Don Miho Pavlinović, politician and priest
Stipe Kljaić
; Hrvatski institut za povijest, Zagreb
Abstract
The article deals with the thought of Mihovil Pavlinović in the light of the Croatian National Revival in Dalmatia of the 19th century. Pavlinović was the Catholic priest from Podgora on the Makarska Littoral, who was one of the leading personalities of the Croatian national movement in Dalmatia. He and his political party, People's Party, advocated the unification of Dalmatia with Croatia and Slavonia. The article also refers to the fact that Pavlinović was not only a national ideologist, but also a social thinker who opposed the revolutionary destruction of old institutions and radical break with the past. Although in the beginning of his public life he was under the influence of “liberal“ Catholicism which sought to reconcile the church doctrine with liberal principles, he later distanced himself from such position in the time of the so-called “liberal laws“ in Dalmatia and other parts of Austrian lands of Monarchy. Also, in the political issues, when Dalmatian Serbs formed a coalition with Dalmatian autonomists and when Yugoslavism looked like a mere illusion, he rejected the possibility of religious approach to the Orthodox and came back to the traditional positions of Catholicism as the strongest pledge of the Croatian national integration.
Keywords
Mihovil Pavlinović; national revival; conservatism; liberal Catholicism
Hrčak ID:
213419
URI
Publication date:
19.12.2018.
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