Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Nationalism and Catholicism: concepts and processes; 2. National Catholicism and the church under authoritarian regimes; 3. The church political strategies during the transition; 4. The impact of church strategies on party system consolidation and survival of National Catholicism; 5. The outcome: the reformulation of the nationalist discourses in Spain and Poland; 6. Conclusion; References ; Index
Summary
"National Catholicism, which identifies the nation with the Catholic faith, submits Catholic universalism to the logic of an introverted nationalism that opposes sharing sovereignty with other nations both within the state and in the framework of supranational institutions like the European Union. This book analyzes and describes the attempts to transform introverted conceptions of the nation into extroverted nationalism during the democratic transition and in the two decades thereafter"-- Provided by publisher
