ISTRA IZMEĐU KLERIKALIZMA I LIBERALIZMA (KRAJ 19. I POČETAK 20. STOLJEĆA)
ISTRIA BETWEEN CLERICALISM AND LIBERALISM (THE END OF THE 19TH AND BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY)

Summary/Abstract: Analysis of part of the historical sources, mostly publications of clerical origin, indicates the major areas of misunderstanding and conflict between the clerical and liberal currents in Istria. The time of the most intensive clashes (from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of World War I) is the period of great success of the Croatian National Revival Movement in Istria. This success has for the most part been responsible for unveiling the differences repressed until then due to higher interests. Of course, the influence of bishop Mahnić from the island of Krk who brought the Slovenian model of militant Catholicism to "peaceful" Istria should not be neglected. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the opening of ideological fronts among Istrian Croats. Howeverthese differences may seem deep-rooted, and the clashes fierce, they affected only the literate part of society, meaning only a small segment of the population. The peasants did not take part in theoretical disputes, but nonetheless the ideas of liberalism performing the process of secularization affected them as well. Thus even the homogeneous Catholic tissue of the Istrian countryside slowly begins to disintegrate.

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