The Schism of ’68 : Catholicism, Contraception and Humanae Vitae in Europe, 1945-1975 1st Edition Alana Harris (Eds.)

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3319708104
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3319708102
• Author(s): Alana Harris

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: The Summer of ’68—Beyond the Secularization Thesis
Part I. To the Barricades
2. Humanae Vitae: Catholic Attitudes to Birth Control in the Netherlands and Transnational Church Politics, 1945–1975
3. Of Human Love: Catholics Campaigning for Sexual Aggiornamento in Postwar Belgium
4. ‘A Galileo-Crisis Not a Luther Crisis’? English Catholics’ Attitudes to Contraception
Part II. Episcopal Controversies
5. Religion and Contraception in Comparative Perspective—Switzerland, 1950–1970
6. Attempted Disobedience: Humanae Vitae in West Germany and Austria
Part III. Christian Science and Catholic Conservatism
7. The Politics of Catholic Medicine: ‘The Pill’ and Humanae Vitae in Portugal
8. Humanae Vitae, Birth Control and the Forgotten History of the Catholic Church in Poland
Part IV. Covering the Controversy
9. A Kind of Reformation in Miniature: The Paradoxical Impact of Humanae Vitae in Italy
10. Love in the Time of El Generalísimo: Debates About the Pill in Spain Before and After Humanae Vitae
11. Reactions to the Papal Encyclical Humanae Vitae: The French Conundrum
Part V. Church, State and Contraception
12. The Best News Ireland Ever Got? Humanae Vitae’s Reception on the Pope’s Green Island
13. Catholicism Behind the Iron Curtain: Czechoslovak and Hungarian Responses to Humanae Vitae
14. Afterword—Looking for Love

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