Review article
ISTRIA BETWEEN CLERICALISM AND LIBERALISM (THE END OF THE 19TH AND BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY)
Stipan Trogrlić
; Institute for Applied Social Research of the University of Zagreb - Pula Centre, Pula
Abstract
Analysis of part of the historical sources, mostly publications of
clerical origin, indicates the major areas of misunderstanding and
conflict between the clerical and liberal currents in Istria. The time
of the most intensive clashes (from the end of the 19th century to
the beginning of World War I) is the period of great success of the
Croatian National Revival Movement in Istria. This success has for
the most part been responsible for unveiling the differences
repressed until then due to higher interests. Of course, the
influence of bishop Mahnić from the island of Krk who brought the
Slovenian model of militant Catholicism to "peaceful" Istria should
not be neglected. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the
opening of ideological fronts among Istrian Croats. Howeverthese
differences may seem deep-rooted, and the clashes fierce, they
affected only the literate part of society, meaning only a small
segment of the population. The peasants did not take part in
theoretical disputes, but nonetheless the ideas of liberalism
performing the process of secularization affected them as well.
Thus even the homogeneous Catholic tissue of the Istrian
countryside slowly begins to disintegrate.
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33187
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Publication date:
1.7.1993.
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