Fé e futebol. Muscular Catholicism between Italy and Portugal in the European context (1922-1958)

Abstract This article argues that Portugal was not immune to the experience of Muscular Catholicism, through which the Church tried to strengthen its own imagined community after 1945. This was an imagined community that the Church hoped that it would involve the whole continent starting from Italy,...

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Published inLusotopie : enjeux contemporains dans les espaces lusophones Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 66 - 94
Main Author Serapiglia, Daniele
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Leiden | Boston Brill 01.03.2019
Idemec - UMR 7307
Subjects
fascismo
catolicismo muscular
Pio XII
totalitarisme
totalitarismo
banal internationalism
internacionalismo banal
muscular catholicism
internationalisme banal
Pius XII
Pie XII
fascisme
fascism
catholicisme musculaire
totalitarianism
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Summary:Abstract This article argues that Portugal was not immune to the experience of Muscular Catholicism, through which the Church tried to strengthen its own imagined community after 1945. This was an imagined community that the Church hoped that it would involve the whole continent starting from Italy, where the "Catholic sport" was trying to take the place of the "fascist" sport. Indeed, the Church overcame its distrust of football in this period, making it one of the symbols of its "banal internationalism", and one of the means by which Pius XII tried to make the idea of a totalitarian Church a reality, as suggested by Pius XI.
ISSN:1257-0273
1768-3084
DOI:10.1163/17683084-12341732