The Protestant Peril: The Church and Italian Catholics on the Issue of Religious Freedom, 1922-1955

Zanini, Paolo Paolo Zanini,

ISBN 10: 3506796836 / ISBN 13: 9783506796837

Published by Brill U Schoningh, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Protestant Peril: The Church and Italian Catholics on the Issue of Religious Freedom, 1922-1955
• Publisher: Brill U Schoningh
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3506796836
• ISBN 13: 9783506796837
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In Italy, anti-Protestantism became a significant theme in reactionary polemics during the Risorgimento and the post-unification period of the 19th century. Although it waned around 1900, the anti-Protestant offensive resumed after the First World War. Between the early 1920s and the mid-1950s, the Catholic Church's hostility toward the Protestant presence and mission in Italy developed into a significant social and political phenomenon. It succeeded in influencing both the attitude of the Italian state and the legislation on religious freedom. Reconstructing Catholic anti-Protestantism, Paolo Zanini shows that attitudes toward Protestant denominations were among the elements of continuity between Fascism and the first decade of the post-war Republic.