What is Christian democracy? : politics, religion and ideology /

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Author / Creator:	Accetti, Carlo Invernizzi, 1983- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	xiv, 385 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Christian democracy. Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Christianity and politics. Christian democracy. Christianity and politics. Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11966596

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ISBN:	9781108421669 1108421660 9781108431958 110843195X 9781108389754
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book is a study of the political ideology of Christian Democracy, a set of principles and values that has been, on one hand, extremely influential in the history of western democratic regimes, but, on the other hand, remains severely understudied, especially when compared to its main ideological rivals: socialism, liberalism and conservatism. I begin by substantiating these two claims"--
Other form:	Ebook version : 9781108389754

Table of Contents:

Anti-materialism : Christian democracy's philosophy of history
Personalism : neo-Thomist metaphysics and human rights
Popularism : consciational democracy and constitutionalism
Subsidiarity : a theory of the state and internationalism
Social capitalism : principles of Christian democratic political economy
Christian inspiration : the role of religion in politics
Christian democracy in continental Europe : from dominance to doom?
The European Union as a Christian democracy : a heuristic approach
Christian democracy in the Americas : periphery or vanguard?
Persistent normative potential of Christian democracy : between Muslim democracy and far-right populism.

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