Factionalism in Church-State Interaction

The Croatian Catholic Church in the 1980s

Bibliographic Data

ID4765411
AuthorsPedro Ramet (corresponding author)
Year1985
Volume44
Issue2
Pages298-315
Publication date1985-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSlavic Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2497752
OpenAlexW2328895052
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited8

Among the approaches one might adopt in studying church-state interaction is one that endeavors to treat both church and state as active subjects and which tries to be sensitive to factional divisions within both. This approach makes it clear that just as a regime may have a religious policy, the churches may also have policies toward the regime, and that the resulting relationship reflects the interplay of both policies. If there are factions in both state and church, the policies of both will be the subject and the product of continuing debate and struggle among the factions.Sensitivity to factionalism is not a black-and-white issue but a matter of degree. Nevertheless, Western writings on church-state relations under communism may be grouped into four general categories. In the first category are works treating both church and state as unified (nonfactionalized) entities-either explicitly (by denying factionalism) or implicitly (by ignoring it as analytically unimportant

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