This literature review aims to analyse the historiographical debate on the anti-Protestant campaigns promoted by Italian Catholicism during Fascism, and to highlight how they profoundly influenced the regime’s policy towards the Protestant denominations. This is a relevant debate, which had its first turning point in the 1970s, and has been considerably enriched since the latter half of the 1990s. After retracing the main lines of development of the historiographical debate, the review examines the ideological and historical aspects of the Catholic anti-Protestant polemic, pointing out the role it played in determining the Holy See’s relationship with Fascism. The analysis also focuses on the regime’s policy towards minority religions, the tactical and contingent aspects of which are revealed, as well as the absence of any in-depth reflection on the issue of religious freedom.

Antiprotestantesimo e prassi antievangeliche: un (contrastato) punto di convergenza tra Chiesa e Stato nell’Italia fascista / P. Zanini. - In: ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA. - ISSN 0392-1077. - 2023:302(2023 Aug), pp. 159-174. [10.3280/IC2023-302007]

Antiprotestantesimo e prassi antievangeliche: un (contrastato) punto di convergenza tra Chiesa e Stato nell’Italia fascista

P. Zanini
2023

Abstract

This literature review aims to analyse the historiographical debate on the anti-Protestant campaigns promoted by Italian Catholicism during Fascism, and to highlight how they profoundly influenced the regime’s policy towards the Protestant denominations. This is a relevant debate, which had its first turning point in the 1970s, and has been considerably enriched since the latter half of the 1990s. After retracing the main lines of development of the historiographical debate, the review examines the ideological and historical aspects of the Catholic anti-Protestant polemic, pointing out the role it played in determining the Holy See’s relationship with Fascism. The analysis also focuses on the regime’s policy towards minority religions, the tactical and contingent aspects of which are revealed, as well as the absence of any in-depth reflection on the issue of religious freedom.
Anti-Protestantism; Catholic Church; Religious freedom; State-Church relations; Historiographical debate; Fascist; Italy;
Settore M-STO/04 - Storia Contemporanea
ago-2023
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