World Views and Worldly Wisdom / Visions et expériences du monde

The attraction and repulsion between the Roman Catholic Church and modernity in Europe between 1750 and 2000
Emiel Lamberts (1941), professor emeritus of contemporary history at KU Leuven, is an international expert in the political and religious history of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.

His work and the central themes in his research are the starting point in World Views and Worldly Wisdom. No less than eighteen leading international researchers put different aspects of his work in the spotlight. A recurring theme, however, is the attraction and repulsion between the Roman Catholic Church and modernity in Europe between 1750 and 2000.

The ambivalent relationship with modernity is therefore the leitmotiv of the first part of this volume, whereas the second part focuses on the repositioning of the Church and the tensions between religion, ideology and politics. In this way the volume reflects Lamberts’s fascination for the history of political institutions as well as his research on Christian democracy. The contributions address – in a comparative way and from a transatlantic viewpoint – this broad period of time in history, which gave rise to different social movements and different models of society in Belgium and elsewhere.

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Contributors: Winfried Becker (Universität Passau), Bruno Béthouart (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale), Hans Blom (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Alfredo Canavero (Università degli Studi di Milano), Philippe Chenaux (Pontificia Università Lateranense, Roma), Andrea Ciampani (LUMSA, Roma), Jo Deferme (KU Leuven), Jan De Maeyer (KADOC KU Leuven), Henk De Smaele (Universiteit Antwerpen), Carine Dujardin (KADOC KU Leuven), Jean-Dominique Durand (Université Lyon 3), Michael Gehler (Jean Monnet Chair, Universität Hildesheim - Institut für Neuzeit- und Zeitgeschichtsforschung, Wien), Susana Monreal (Universidad Católica del Uruguay), Patrick Pasture (KU Leuven), Patrick M.W. Taveirne (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Peter Van Kemseke (Europese Commissie, KU Leuven), Vincent Viaene (Attaché bij het Huis van Koning Filip), Els Witte (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

"World Views and Worldly Wisdom / Visions et expériences du monde" was edited by Jan De Maeyer and Vincent Viaene.

Jan De Maeyer is professor emeritus of contemporary church history at KU Leuven and honorary director of KADOC-KU Leuven. His research focuses on political and social Catholicism, material Christianity, and the development of religious institutions and congregations.

Vincent Viaene studied history and international relations at KU Leuven, the Sorbonne, and Yale University. He was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at KU Leuven, a senior Fellow at KADOC and a Marie Curie Fellow at Oxford University. In 2012 he joined the Belgian diplomatic corps. Since 2015 he is seconded to the Belgian Royal Household as Advisor of His Majesty King Philip.

Yes, "World Views and Worldly Wisdom / Visions et expériences du monde" is part of the "KADOC-Studies on Religion, Culture and Society" series. It's book 17 in the series.

Elena Arigita Maza (Universidad de Granada)
Florian Bock (Ruhr Universität Bochum)
Timothy Brittain‐Catlin (University of Cambridge)
James Chappel (Duke University)
Kim Christiaens (KADOC-KU Leuven)
Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin)
​​​​James Kennedy (Utrecht University)
​​​Franziska Metzger (PH Luzern)
Patrick Pasture (MoSa‐KU Leuven) - chairman
Isabelle Saint‐Martin (EPHE Paris)
Thijl Sunier (VU Amsterdam)
Árpád von Klimó (Catholic University of America)
Veerle De Laet (Leuven University Press)
Peter Heyrman (KADOC-KU Leuven) - secretary

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Preface Préface Jan De Maeyer & Vincent Viaene
THE CHURCH, CATHOLICS AND MODERNITY MODALITIES OF ATTRACTION AND REPULSION
L'ÉGLISE, LES CATHOLIQUES ET LA MODERNITÉ UN JEU DE STRATEGO ENTRE ATTIRANCE ET AVERSION
Tocqueville Revisited Transatlantic Perspectives on Modernity, Democracy and Christianity in Europe and North America (c. 1650-1860) Patrick Pasture
Catholic Republicanism Revisited Henk de Smaele
« Démocratie catholique » et « démocratie chrétienne » Toile de fond d'une controverse idéologique à la fin du XIXe siècle Jan De Maeyer The Influence of Catholic Socio-Political Theory on the Foundations of the Belgian Welfare State The Case of Subsidized Liberty (late nineteenth century) Jo Deferme
Rethinking the Origins of the Catholic Party in Liberal Italy The Unione Romana (1877-1887) Andrea Ciampani Le catholicisme social dans le cà´ne sud-américain Étude comparative des cas argentin, chilien et uruguayen Susana Monreal
Le MRP et le père Lebret à la Libération à€ chacun sa modernité? Bruno Béthouart
Perceptions and Realities The Course of the Christian Democratic Union in West Germany (1945-2005) Winfried Becker
Pillarization and Occupation in Dutch History Hans Blom
BISHOPS ON THE CHESSBOARD OF POWER WORLD VIEWS AND POLITICS
DES FOUS SUR L'ÉCHIQUIER DU POUVOIR IDÉOLOGIE ET POLITIQUE
Modern Ethno-National Visions and Missionaries from the Low Countries at China's Edge (1865-1948) Patrick Taveirne
World Missions as a Field of Inspiration for New Vatican Strategies towards Modern Society (1830-1940) Carine Dujardin
A Pope's Dilemma Temporal Power and Moral Authority in the History of the Modern Vatican Vincent Viaene
La réconciliation franco-italienne pour une Europe nouvelle La correspondance Luigi Sturzo-Georges Bidault (1944-1945) Jean-Dominique Durand
Peace in the Magisterium of Twentieth-Century Popes Alfredo Canavero L'internationalisme catholique des années 1920 Deux études de cas fondées sur les archives romaines Philippe Chenaux
Common and Different Interests since World War II and after the End of the Cold War Europe's Integrated Member States and Their Relations to the United States (1945-2005) Michael Gehler
The Cultural Political Perspective on the Benelux in Post-War Belgium (1944-1955) Els Witte
'We the peoples…' The Interaction of Power, Ideas and Ideology in the United Nations Charter Peter Van Kemseke
Bibliography Contributors / Contributeurs Colophon