The Schism of '68 : Catholicism, Contraception and Humanae Vitae in Europe, 1945-1975 / edited by Alana Harris.
Harris, Alana, editor.
2018
D203.2-D475
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Title
The Schism of '68 : Catholicism, Contraception and Humanae Vitae in Europe, 1945-1975 / edited by Alana Harris.
ISBN
9783319708119
3319708112
3319708104
9783319708102
3319708104
9783319708102
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70811-9
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XXI, 377 pages 5 illustrations) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-70811-9 doi
9783319708102
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D203.2-D475
Dewey Decimal Classification
241/.663
Summary
This volume explores the critical reactions and dissenting activism generated in the summer of 1968 when Pope Paul VI promulgated his much-anticipated and hugely divisive encyclical, Humanae Vitae, which banned the use of 'artificial contraception' by Catholics. Through comparative case studies of fourteen different European countries, it offers a wealth of new data about the lived religious beliefs and practices of ordinary people - as well as theologians interrogating 'traditional teachings' - in areas relating to love, marriage, family life, gender roles and marital intimacy. Key themes include the role of medical experts, the media, the strategies of progressive Catholic clergy and laity, and the critical part played by hugely differing Church-State relations. In demonstrating the Catholic church's important (and overlooked) contribution to the refashioning of the sexual landscape of post-war Europe, it makes a critical intervention into a growing historiography exploring the 1960s and offers a close interrogation of one strand of religious change in this tumultuous decade.
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Genders and sexualities in history.
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1. Introduction: The Summer of '68
Beyond the Secularization Thesis; Alana Harris
Part I: To the Barricades
2. Humanae Vitae, Catholic Attitudes to Birth Control in the Netherlands and Transnational Church Politics, 1930-75; Chris Dols and Maarten van den Bos
3. Of Human Love. Catholics Campaigning for Sexual Aggiornamento in postwar Belgium; Wannes Dupont
4. 'A Galileo-crisis not a Luther crisis'? English Catholics' attitudes to Contraception; Alana Harris
Part II: Episcopal Controversies
5. Religion and Contraception in Comparative Perspective
Switzerland (1950-70); Caroline Rusterholz
6. Attempted Disobedience. Humanae Vitae in West Germany and Austria; Katharina Ebner and Maria Mesner
Part III: Christian Science and Catholic Conservatism
7. The Politics of Catholic Medicine. 'The pill' and Humanae Vitae in Portugal; Tiago Pires Marques
8. Humanae Vitae, Birth Control and the Forgotten History of the Catholic church in Poland Agnieszka Kościańska
Part IV: Covering the Controversy
9. A Kind of Reformation in Miniature. The Paradoxical Impact of Humanae Vitae in Italy; Massimo Faggioli and Francesca Vassalle
10. Love in the Time of el Generalísimo: Debates about the pill in Spain before and after Humanae Vitae; Agata Ignaciuk
11. Reactions to the Papal encyclical Humanae Vitae: the French Conundrum; Martine Sevegrand
Part V: Church, State and Contraception
12. The Best News Ireland ever got? Humanae Vitae's Reception on the Pope's Green Island; Peter Murray
13. Catholicism behind the Iron Curtain: Czechoslovak and Hungarian Responses to Humanae Vitae; Mary Heimann and Gábor Szegedi
14. Looking for Love
an Afterword; Dagmar Herzog
Index.

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