Italy's Christian Democracy

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Italy's Christian Democracy is written by Rosario Forlenza and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0198859864 (ISBN 10) and 9780198859864 (ISBN 13).

"'Italy's Christian Democracy', the first comprehensive study of Italian Christian Democracy in English, unravels the encounter between Catholicism and democracy from pre-unification Italy in the eighteenth century to the near-present. Amid the triumphant emergence of the Christian Democratic political party that ruled Italy from 1948 to 1994, Forlenza & Thomassen demonstrate how the Catholic embrace of political modernity and democracy emerged as a 'political spirituality' and a historically significant alternative to the reigning political ideologies of the time--fascism, socialism, liberalism, and conservatism. With a focus on critical moment of modern Italian history--the Enlightenment and French Revolution, the Risorgimento, World War I, the fascist period, World War II, the post-war Republic--the authors demonstrate the often dramatic ways in which Catholic thinkers, from laymen to priests and bishops, sought to interpret and direct democratic thought and practice in line with Catholic ethics." --