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Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain
Piotr H. . Ed(S): Kosicki
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Hardback. Editor(s): Kosicki, Piotr H. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSV; 1DVH; 1DVKC; 1DVP; 1DVWY; HBTW; HRCC2; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
A substantial historiography has emerged across national and linguistic boundaries documenting the Second Vatican Council. And yet virtually no attention has been devoted to the links between the Council and the Catholic faithful who had found themselves living behind an iron curtain by the end of the 1940s. Historians of the Catholic Church have, in fact, mostly rejected the possibility that Communist countries played a role in the Council’s story, or that the Council in turn shaped the subsequent paths of those countries.
The goal of this volume is to begin writing Central and Eastern Europe back into the ... Read more
A substantial historiography has emerged across national and linguistic boundaries documenting the Second Vatican Council. And yet virtually no attention has been devoted to the links between the Council and the Catholic faithful who had found themselves living behind an iron curtain by the end of the 1940s. Historians of the Catholic Church have, in fact, mostly rejected the possibility that Communist countries played a role in the Council’s story, or that the Council in turn shaped the subsequent paths of those countries.
The goal of this volume is to begin writing Central and Eastern Europe back into the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780813229126
SKU
V9780813229126
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About Piotr H. . Ed(S): Kosicki
Piotr H. Kosicki is assistant professor of history at the University of Maryland.
Reviews for Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain
“An intriguing, well-informed, and riveting treatment of the much overlooked impact of the Second Vatican Council on the Soviet Bloc . . . succeeds in tossing away the longentrenched concept of the “Church of Silence” as applicable to the Communist period.”—Mikolaj Kunicki, St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford