WORLD VIEWS AND WORLDLY WISDOM; VISIONS ET EXPERIENCES DU MO

The attraction and repulsion between the Roman Catholic Church and modernity in Europe between 1750 and 2000.
Emiel Lamberts (1941), professor emeritus of contemporary history at KU Leuven, is an international expert in the political and religiou
s history of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.
His work and the central themes in his research are the starting point in World Views and Worldly Wisdom. No less than eighteen leading international researchers put different aspects of his wor
k in the spotlight. A recurring theme, however, is the attraction and repulsion between the Roman Catholic Church and modernity in Europe between 1750 and 2000.
The ambivalent relationship with modernity is therefore the leitmotiv of the first p
art of this volume, whereas the second part focuses on the repositioning of the Church and the tensions between religion, ideology and politics. In this way the volume reflects Lamberts'' fascination for the history of political institutions as well
as his research on Christian democracy. The contributions address - in a comparative way and from a transatlantic viewpoint - this broad period of time in history, which gave rise to different social movements and different models of society in Belgi
um and elsewhere.

Contributors:
Winfried Becker (Universitat Passau), Bruno Bethouart (Universite du Littoral Cote d''Opale), Hans Blom (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Alfredo Canavero (Universita degli Studi di Milano), Philippe Chenaux (
Pontificia Universita Lateranense, Roma), Andrea Ciampani (LUMSA, Roma), Jo Deferme (KU Leuven), Jan De Maeyer (KADOC KU Leuven), Henk De Smaele (Universiteit Antwerpen), Carine Dujardin (KADOC KU Leuven), Jean-Dominique Durand (Universite Lyon 3), M
ichael Gehler (Jean Monnet Chair, Universitat Hildesheim - Institut fur Neuzeit- und Zeitgeschichtsforschung, Wien), Susana Monreal (Universidad Catolica del Uruguay), Patrick Pasture (KU Leuven), Patrick M.W. Taveirne (The Chinese University of Hong
Kong), Peter Van Kemseke (Europese Commissie, KU Leuven), Vincent Viaene (Attache bij het Huis van Koning Filip), Els Witte (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)