Inventing the Modern Papacy (eBook)

Vol 2: From Feudal Kingdom to Global Soft Power (1789-1914)

Carolina Armenteros, Francisco Javier Ramon Solans (Herausgeber)

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2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-73498-2 (ISBN)

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The nineteenth century brought unremitting conflict over the Papal States. As temporal sovereignty slipped from the pope's hands in the Italian peninsula, the papacy developed into a soft power on a global scale. This transformation was driven both by the papacy's conscious efforts to reinvent itself, and by increasing lay Catholic support in the face of mounting challenges: war, revolution, the rise of nationalism and increasing secularization. Though the reinvention of Church government entailed divisions among Catholics, it eventually allowed the pope to develop a new authority, subtler yet firmer than the one before. This volume tells the story of this profound transformation from the point of view of social, political and cultural history.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• ISBN-10: 90-04-73498-8 / 9004734988
• ISBN-13: 978-90-04-73498-2 / 9789004734982