Hardback. New. Historians of the Catholic Church have mostly rejected the possibility that Communist countries played a role in the Second Vatican 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 story of the Second Vatican Council, its origins, and its consequences. ISBN 081322912x 9780813229126 [GB]

ISBN10: 081322912X, ISBN13: 9780813229126, [publisher: The Catholic University of America Press, Washington] Hardcover Hardcover. 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 Councils 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 story of the Second Vatican Council, its origins, and its consequences. This volume assemblesfor the first time in any languagea broad overview of the place of four different Communist-run countriesCzechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslaviain the story of the Council. Framing these is an account of how the Cold War impacted the Council and its reception. The book engages with both English-language scholarship and the national historiographies of the countries that it examines, o ering a global lens on the present state of research (covering all relevant languages) and seeking to propel that research forward. All of the chapters draw on both non-English secondary literature and original primary sourcessome published, some archival.In ...