1st Edition

Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe

Edited By Matthew Feldman, Marius Turda, Tudor Georgescu Copyright 2008
272 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

This edited volume arose from an international workshop convened in 2006 by Feldman and Turda with Tudor Georgescu, supported by Routledge, and the universities of Oxford, Brookes, Northampton and CEU (Budapest). As the field of fascist studies continues to integrate more fully into pan-European studies of the twentieth century, and given the increasing importance of secular ‘political religion’... Read more

-Introduction: Matthew Feldman (University of Northampton) and Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University), Approaching "clerical fascism’

-Griffin, Roger (Oxford Brookes University), ‘The Holy Storm’: "clerical fascism" through the lens of modernism

-Steigmann Gall, Richard (Kent State University), The Nazis’ ‘Positive Christianity’: A case of "clerical fascism"?

-Bodo, Bela (Grand Valley University), The Catholic Church and the White Terror in Hungary, 1919-1922

-Cronin, Mike (Boston College), Catholicising fascism, fascistising Catholicism? The Blueshirts and the Jesuits in 1930s Ireland

-Berggren, Lena (University of Umea), Completing the Lutheran revolution: "clerical fascism" and ultra-nationalism in interwar Sweden

-De Wever, Bruno (Ghent University), Catholicism and fascism in Belgium

-Linehan, Thomas (Brunel University), ‘On the Side of Christ’: clerics and fascists in interwar Britain

-Dagninio, Jorge (University of Oxford), Catholic modernities in Fascist Italy: The case of the FUCI

-Falina, Maria (Central European University), Between "clerical fascism" and political orthodoxy: the case of interwar Serbia

-Pinto, Antonio Costa (University of Lisbon), Political Catholicism, Crisis of Democracy, and Salazar’s New State in Portugal

-Biondich, Mark (Carleton University), The Ustasha and "clerical fascism" in the wartime Independent State of Croatia

-Sandulescu, Valentin (Central European University), Scaralised Politics in Action: The February 1937 Burial of the Romanian Legionary Leaders Ion Mota and Vasile Marin

-Kallis, Aristotle (University of Lancaster) The Metaxas regime and "clerical fascism" in interwar Greece

-Pyrah, Robert (University of Oxford) Enacting Encyclicals: Austrian cultural politics in the context of "clerical fascism"

-Shekhovstov, Anton (TO FOLLOW), "Clerical fascism" in interwar Ukraine: Its nature and place in the European context

-Kocoureck, Katya (TO FOLLOW), ‘The father of the Slovak nation and his devout followers’: Andrei Hlinka, Jozef Tiso and Karol Sidor in the struggle for SL’s power, 1935-8

-Krzywies, Grezegorz (TO FOLLOW), Catholic authoritarians or fascists: The Case of National Democracy in Poland

-Pollard, John (Cambridge University), Context, Overview and Conclusion

Biography

Matthew Feldman is a Lecturer in Twentieth Century History at the University of Northampton and editor of the journal Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions.