On an otherwise ordinary Sunday morning in 1964, millions of
Roman Catholics around the world experienced history. For the first
time in centuries, they attended masses that were conducted mostly
in their native tongues. This occasion marked only the first of
many profound changes to emanate from the Second Vatican Council
(1962-1965). Known popularly as Vatican II, it would soon give rise
to the most far-reaching religious transformation since the
Reformation.
In this groundbreaking work of cultural and historical
sociology, Melissa Wilde offers a new explanation for this
revolutionary transformation of the Church. Drawing on newly
available sources--including a collection of interviews with the
Council's key bishops and cardinals, and primary documents from the
Vatican Secret Archive that have never before been seen by
researchers--Wilde demonstrates that the pronouncements of the
Council were not merely reflections of papal will, but the product
of a dramatic confrontation between progressives and conservatives
that began during the first days of the Council. The outcome of
this confrontation was determined by a number of factors: the
Church's decline in Latin America; its competition and dialogue
with other faiths, particularly Protestantism, in northern Europe
and North America; and progressive clerics' deep belief in the
holiness of compromise and their penchant for consensus
building.
Wilde's account will fascinate not only those interested in
Vatican II but anyone who wants to understand the social
underpinnings of religious change.
General
Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2013 |
First published: |
October 2013 |
Authors: |
Melissa J. Wilde
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Dimensions: |
235 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-16172-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-691-16172-0 |
Barcode: |
9780691161723 |
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