Jan Nelis
Université libre de Bruxelles, Fondation de la mémoire contemporaine, researcher (contemporary history)
I've done research on catholicism and European religious life, as well as on nazism and Italian fascism, in various universities and research centres in Italy (Bologna, Florence, Rome), France (Université de Toulouse-Jean Jaurès) and Belgium (FWO-Ghent University and FNRS-Université libre de Bruxelles). I am currently a researcher (contemporary history) at the Fondation de la Mémoire Contemporaine (Université libre de Bruxelles).
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CONTENTS:
Foreword............................................................................................11
Jan Nelis
Austria. The Pluri-Religious Challenge of a Secular State
Ready to Integrate Religion into the Public Space...........................15
Richard Potz
Belgium. The Challenge of a Highly Secularized Yet Multiconfessional Society..................................................................21
Caroline Sägesser
Bulgaria. Encounters between Religion and Secularism
in a Post-Atheist Society....................................................................27
Daniela Kalkandjieva
Croatia. The Role of Religion in a Predominantly
Catholic Country...............................................................................33
Siniša Zrinščak
Cyprus. A Deeply Religious Society..................................................39
Victor Roudometof
The Czech Republic. New Challenges for Churches
in a Highly Secularized Society.........................................................45
Roman Vido
Denmark. The Still Prominent Role of the
National Church and Religious Traditions.......................................51
Henrik Reintoft Christensen
Estonia. The Debate on the Role of Religion
in a Deeply Secular State...................................................................57
Ringo Ringvee
Finland. A Christian, Secular and Increasingly
Religiously Diverse Country.............................................................63
Teemu Taira
France. The Struggle for Laïcité........................................................69
Anne-Laure Zwilling
Germany. The Challenge of Religious Pluralism
and Secularization.............................................................................75
Sylvie Toscer-Angot
Greece. The Politics of Secularization and the Financial Crisis........81
Konstantinos Papastathis
Hungary. Declining Church Religiosity and Increasing
Religious Individualization in a Post-Communist Country............89
Gergely Rosta
Ireland. The Erosion of the Catholic Church’s
Authority and Power.........................................................................95
Brian Conway
Italy. Secularization, Abstract Model vs. Reality.............................101
Giuseppe Casuscelli
Latvia. An Example of Christian Diversity.....................................107
Anita Stasulane
Lithuania. Catholic Church and Public Debates............................113
Milda Ališauskienë
Luxembourg. New Legal Dispositions in a Changing
Religious Landscape........................................................................119
Antoinette Reuter
Malta. A Society with Values in Turmoil.........................................127
Mario Vassallo
The Netherlands. The Impact of Secularization
on a Pillar-Based Society.................................................................135
Agnieszka Szumigalska
Poland. The Catholic Church’s Influence on Social,
Political and Private Life.................................................................141
Michał Czelny, Marta Ordon and Michał Zawiślak
Portugal. A Lingering Catholicism.................................................147
Henrique Machado-Jorge
Romania. Exploring the Bond between Church, State,
and Nation.......................................................................................155
Olivier Gillet
Slovakia. Secularization of Public Life and
Desecularization of the State...........................................................161
Miroslav Tížik
Slovenia. The Catholic Church between Historical
Heritage and Current Financial Problems......................................169
Egon Pelikan
Spain. Important Changes in Religious
Landscape and Public Policy...........................................................175
Julia Martínez-Ariño
Sweden. Blurring Boundaries: Patterns
of Contemporary Religiosity...........................................................181
Ann af Burén
The United Kingdom. The Prevalence of Secularism.....................187
Anthony Bradney
Religion as Seen by the European Authorities.
Liberty, Equality and Non-Discrimination within
the Council of Europe and the European Union............................193
Gabrielle Caceres
Religion in the European Union. A Conclusion.............................211
Jean-Philippe Schreiber
the general theme of the reception of antiquity, a topic
which has in recent years become a discipline in itself,
or what some might call a ‘cross-discipline’. Indeed the
Nachleben of the (culture of) classical antiquity, and of
antiquity as a whole, manifests in a number of diverse
domains, opening up the field of reception studies
to scholars from disciplines other than Classics. This
collection of papers illustrates this diversity, uniting
as it does original research by scholars from a variety
of disciplines: classicists, historians, theatre historians,
architectural historians, psychologists, archaeologists,
artists, and more, all of whom have treated some aspect
of the so-called "classical tradition" by means of their
own individual approaches, leading to a volume rich
and dense in themes and methodologies.
in politics, i.e. the role of the concept of ‘Romanness’ or romanità
under Italian fascism. The author explores a wide selection of written
press published during the ventennio fascista, and evidences that romanità, conceived as a process of identification between ancient (Roman) and fascist Italy, was a nearly passe partout concept, which could be introduced whenever the most diverse aspects of fascist ideology in some way seemed to converge with Roman antiquity. Rather than focusing on romanità ’s singularity under fascism, this study highlights the relative ease with which this long-existing concept was used and converted. On a more abstract level, the study touches upon the problem of consensus, as it shows how intellectuals were in part responsible for the diffusion and development of one of the major and most omnipresent myths promoted by the fascist regime.
Prenant pour point de départ la revue jésuite La Civiltà Cattolica, véritable ‘laboratoire’ de la pensée catholique italienne, l’étude de Jan Nelis montre que l’Église catholique poursuivait d’abord un agenda propre, celui des dogmes et du pouvoir des catholiques : leur identité, en tant que groupe, fut autant définie par inclusion que par exclusion, et donc dans un rapport souvent complexe à l’‘Autre’. Mobilisant les questions d’identité italienne et ‘romaine’, de colonialisme, de racisme, d’antisémitisme ou encore de religion politique, l’auteur analyse la trajectoire du catholicisme italien de 1919 aux années 1950 et identifie la montée en puissance d’une notion hybride de religiosité et d’italianité qui allait servir à étayer la cohésion entre mondes catholique et national.
Papers by Jan Nelis
CONTENTS:
Foreword............................................................................................11
Jan Nelis
Austria. The Pluri-Religious Challenge of a Secular State
Ready to Integrate Religion into the Public Space...........................15
Richard Potz
Belgium. The Challenge of a Highly Secularized Yet Multiconfessional Society..................................................................21
Caroline Sägesser
Bulgaria. Encounters between Religion and Secularism
in a Post-Atheist Society....................................................................27
Daniela Kalkandjieva
Croatia. The Role of Religion in a Predominantly
Catholic Country...............................................................................33
Siniša Zrinščak
Cyprus. A Deeply Religious Society..................................................39
Victor Roudometof
The Czech Republic. New Challenges for Churches
in a Highly Secularized Society.........................................................45
Roman Vido
Denmark. The Still Prominent Role of the
National Church and Religious Traditions.......................................51
Henrik Reintoft Christensen
Estonia. The Debate on the Role of Religion
in a Deeply Secular State...................................................................57
Ringo Ringvee
Finland. A Christian, Secular and Increasingly
Religiously Diverse Country.............................................................63
Teemu Taira
France. The Struggle for Laïcité........................................................69
Anne-Laure Zwilling
Germany. The Challenge of Religious Pluralism
and Secularization.............................................................................75
Sylvie Toscer-Angot
Greece. The Politics of Secularization and the Financial Crisis........81
Konstantinos Papastathis
Hungary. Declining Church Religiosity and Increasing
Religious Individualization in a Post-Communist Country............89
Gergely Rosta
Ireland. The Erosion of the Catholic Church’s
Authority and Power.........................................................................95
Brian Conway
Italy. Secularization, Abstract Model vs. Reality.............................101
Giuseppe Casuscelli
Latvia. An Example of Christian Diversity.....................................107
Anita Stasulane
Lithuania. Catholic Church and Public Debates............................113
Milda Ališauskienë
Luxembourg. New Legal Dispositions in a Changing
Religious Landscape........................................................................119
Antoinette Reuter
Malta. A Society with Values in Turmoil.........................................127
Mario Vassallo
The Netherlands. The Impact of Secularization
on a Pillar-Based Society.................................................................135
Agnieszka Szumigalska
Poland. The Catholic Church’s Influence on Social,
Political and Private Life.................................................................141
Michał Czelny, Marta Ordon and Michał Zawiślak
Portugal. A Lingering Catholicism.................................................147
Henrique Machado-Jorge
Romania. Exploring the Bond between Church, State,
and Nation.......................................................................................155
Olivier Gillet
Slovakia. Secularization of Public Life and
Desecularization of the State...........................................................161
Miroslav Tížik
Slovenia. The Catholic Church between Historical
Heritage and Current Financial Problems......................................169
Egon Pelikan
Spain. Important Changes in Religious
Landscape and Public Policy...........................................................175
Julia Martínez-Ariño
Sweden. Blurring Boundaries: Patterns
of Contemporary Religiosity...........................................................181
Ann af Burén
The United Kingdom. The Prevalence of Secularism.....................187
Anthony Bradney
Religion as Seen by the European Authorities.
Liberty, Equality and Non-Discrimination within
the Council of Europe and the European Union............................193
Gabrielle Caceres
Religion in the European Union. A Conclusion.............................211
Jean-Philippe Schreiber
the general theme of the reception of antiquity, a topic
which has in recent years become a discipline in itself,
or what some might call a ‘cross-discipline’. Indeed the
Nachleben of the (culture of) classical antiquity, and of
antiquity as a whole, manifests in a number of diverse
domains, opening up the field of reception studies
to scholars from disciplines other than Classics. This
collection of papers illustrates this diversity, uniting
as it does original research by scholars from a variety
of disciplines: classicists, historians, theatre historians,
architectural historians, psychologists, archaeologists,
artists, and more, all of whom have treated some aspect
of the so-called "classical tradition" by means of their
own individual approaches, leading to a volume rich
and dense in themes and methodologies.
in politics, i.e. the role of the concept of ‘Romanness’ or romanità
under Italian fascism. The author explores a wide selection of written
press published during the ventennio fascista, and evidences that romanità, conceived as a process of identification between ancient (Roman) and fascist Italy, was a nearly passe partout concept, which could be introduced whenever the most diverse aspects of fascist ideology in some way seemed to converge with Roman antiquity. Rather than focusing on romanità ’s singularity under fascism, this study highlights the relative ease with which this long-existing concept was used and converted. On a more abstract level, the study touches upon the problem of consensus, as it shows how intellectuals were in part responsible for the diffusion and development of one of the major and most omnipresent myths promoted by the fascist regime.
Prenant pour point de départ la revue jésuite La Civiltà Cattolica, véritable ‘laboratoire’ de la pensée catholique italienne, l’étude de Jan Nelis montre que l’Église catholique poursuivait d’abord un agenda propre, celui des dogmes et du pouvoir des catholiques : leur identité, en tant que groupe, fut autant définie par inclusion que par exclusion, et donc dans un rapport souvent complexe à l’‘Autre’. Mobilisant les questions d’identité italienne et ‘romaine’, de colonialisme, de racisme, d’antisémitisme ou encore de religion politique, l’auteur analyse la trajectoire du catholicisme italien de 1919 aux années 1950 et identifie la montée en puissance d’une notion hybride de religiosité et d’italianité qui allait servir à étayer la cohésion entre mondes catholique et national.
attempted to invert this causal relationship, the present study situates Hitler’s artistic passion within his ‘biopolitical’ vision of the new Germany, cleansed of all that was deemed degenerate (entartet) and unassimilable within the national community (gemeinschaftsunfähig). Through an analysis of the Third Reich’s vast civic building programmes, which takes into account Hitler’s personal discourse on the ancient past, we will show how both elements, that is Hitler’s ‘modernised’ neo-classicism and his view on antiquity, can be seen as essentially complementary, and integral to his political programme. We will do so by firstly presenting an overview of the most typical examples of Hitler and Nazism’s use of an idiosyncratic version of neo-classically inspired civic architecture. After this we will focus on the Führer’s ‘artistic’ persona, both in the sense of his love for the arts, especially those referring to the formal language of antiquity, as in the sense of his biopolitical conception of Nazi life as a ‘work of art in progress’. Finally,
Hitler’s vision of artistic renaissance is located within a discourse of racial renewal which embraced the past and future within a this-worldly ‘eternity’.
The essay also illustrates the manner in which Catholic intellectuals intuitively perceived some aspects of fascist totalitarianism and the ‘sacralisation of politics’ as threatening, particularly when confronted with manifestations of what was termed ‘political heresy’, along with certain features of fascist associationalism. However, despite their concerns no explicit rupture between Church and regime ever eventuated; on the contrary, some accounts imply an intended merger, however unstable it may have proven, between the ‘religious’ and ‘totalitarian’ goals of both parties.
sessioni, ciascuna delle quali
focalizza e definisce precisi ambiti
di riferimento.
Dopo una serie di relazioni di
carattere generale, il cui scopo è di
argomentare e presentare il quadro
storico d’insieme, seguiranno
interventi dedicati a specifici aspetti.
analyseront la dynamique très particulière des
salons comme lieux d’échange entrecroisant
savoirs et pouvoirs, mêlant plusieurs disciplines
et approches (littéraire, politique, artistique, historique,
sociologique, économique, sciences de
gestion) et touchant à des thèmes tels que la
religion, la politique, les marchés, le genre,
l’éducation...
La plupart des études dédiées aux salons mondains
se focalisent sur des écrivains et académiciens
; en revanche, on inclura une grande
variété d’acteurs appartenant aux mondes académique,
politique, culturel, artistique, économique
et même militaire. On pourra par
exemple envisager les salons parisiens de la
Marquise Arconati-Visconti, de Madame de
Martel de Janville (‘Gyp’) et de Madame Arman
de Caillavet, ou encore le salon bruxellois de la
famille Errera, autant de lieux dans lesquels se
nouent des alliances, circulent des connaissances,
prennent forme des projets, se mobilisent
des groupes, etc.
On s’intéressera donc aux contenus des discussions,
à la manière dont chacun y affichait
ou exerçait son pouvoir, aux réseaux qui s’y formaient
et à leur implication sur d’autres scènes,
comme dans l’Affaire Dreyfus ou dans le mécénat
public ; on envisagera aussi leur rôle
émancipatoire quant au rôle des femmes ou à
l’emprise sociétale de la religion. Enfin, l’étude
des salons mondains mènera à quelques
considérations concernant le phénomène d’upward
social mobility, dans la mesure où ils regroupaient
des personnes provenant de milieux
sociaux divers dont l’appartenance au monde
intellectuel était vécue différemment.
Les participants seront invités à dépasser la dimension
purement bio-prosopographique pour
se rattacher à l’histoire des sociabilités intellectuelles,
ainsi qu’à celle des réseaux intellectuels
transnationaux. Ils interrogeront la notion d’« intellectuel
» et la relation entre les champs du savoir
et du pouvoir, une relation sans cesse
reformulée et renégociée.
Si le mot salon désigne ces réunions mondaines
dans lesquelles se forment les réseaux
de savoirs et pouvoirs, ils désignent également
des rassemblements temporaires contemporains
du microcosme d’une industrie, d’un
champ artistique ou d’un marché. La sociologie
économique, l’économie géographique et les
sciences des organisations ont développé des
approches et concepts permettant d’étudier
ces événements tantôt qualifiés de « configurateurs
de champs » ou de « clusters temporaires ».
Les salons et conventions contemporains participent
à reconfigurer les hiérarchies dans des
secteurs donnés, construire les marchés, structurer
les industries, faire circuler des connaissances
ou organiser la mondialisation. Des
présentations couvrant les principaux courants
d’analyse des salons viendront ainsi compléter
la journée d’étude en comparant ces événements
contemporains avec les salons mondains
des XIXe-XXe siècles et en montrant
comment ces regroupements participent à organiser
des champs spécifiques.
the one hand participants will present research
on the general theme of the relationship between
Catholicism and fascism in Europe in the period
1918-45; on the other hand the discussion will
be taken to a theoretical level. Participants will
cover a number of geographical contexts which
is unprecedented in a conference of this size.
The final aim is to further develop an interpretive
‘cluster’ model that will incorporate a series of
investigative matrixes, thus inspiring future
research. Published as: Nelis Jan/Morelli Anne /Praet Danny (eds.), Catholicism and Fascism in Europe 1918-1945, 2015, Olms, Hildesheim-Zürich-New York (418 pp.).