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A REPEATED SLAP TO CROATIAN CATHOLICS: ON THE OCCASION OF M. STRECHA'S BOOK KATHOLIC CROATHOOD
Jure Krišto
; Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Historiography under communism, influenced and often motivated by anti-religious and anti-Catholic presuppositions, has held that the opposition of the Catholic Church to legislation and ideology inspired by liberalism in Croatia at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries was not only conservative, but insisted on the identification of Catholicism and Croathood. Historiography termed this supposed trend derogatively as clericalism. Strecha argues that the term was a bit too strong, and pleads for the term »political catholicism«, which in the Croatian context can be named »Catholic Croathood«.
The author argues that Strecha'a terminological suggestion is not only even more confusing, but that he continues the anti-Catholic prejudices of the established historiography. He shows how Strecha simply repeats previously reached conclusions, which were simply repetitions of the anti-Catholic stances of the time.
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214413
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Publication date:
5.5.1998.
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