Introduction
1: Vatican II and Post-Conciliar European Theology
2: Red Priests in Working Class Blue
3: Spontaneous Ecclesial Communities
4: From Seminarians to Radical Student Activists
5: The Working Class Goes to Paradise
Conclusion
Born and raised in West Germany, after his Abitur Gerd-Rainer Horn
emigrated to the United States where he then lived and worked for
twenty-six years, along the way obtaining his B.A. (Minnesota),
M.A. and Ph.D. (Michigan). He taught at Montana State and Western
Oregon University before moving to the University of Huddersfield
and then the University of Warwick in England. In 2013, Horn
finally returned to Europe, now teaching at Sciences Po
(Institut
d'Études Politiques) in Paris. Focussing on the transnational
dimension of continental western European social movements between
the 1920s and the 1980s, Horn's particular areas of expertise
include the political
itinerary of social democracy, the socio-political challenges of
the immediate post-WW II period, the cultural and political
innovations of the 1960s and 1970s, in addition to the phenomenon
of progressive Catholicism in Western Europe.
He has produced a highly scholarly work of singular importance, one
that is credible, authoritative, and remarkably complete. It
requires and deserves to be read carefully ... Horn is brilliant at
capturing the overlap between the visions of a radical theology and
the movements its proponents endorsed ... The best way of
appraising this work is to treat it as the definitive benchmark for
understanding the rise and fall of progressive Catholicism in the
countries selected for study.
*Kieran Flanagan, Catholic Social Science Review*
an absolutely fascinating book
*Patrick Gruson, Archives de sciences sociales des religions*
Horn's impressive book will be the essential starting-point for all
future work in this field.
*Hugh McLeod, Catholic Historical Review*
Gerd-Rainer Horn presents us with a trendsetting volume which will
provide new momentum to research on European religious and social
history of the 1960s and 1970s.
*Johannes Wischmeyer, SEHEPUNKTE*
By means of the methodology of comparative political science, Horn
thus reintroduces into the history of the New Left actors and
movements that have been relegated to the shadows for a long time
and that, moreover, had contributed significantly to its political
culture and key ideas.
*Alessandro Santagata, Il Manifesto*
Horn's book deserves to be read widely by students and scholars of
social movements, the history of the Left, church history, and
post-war western European history.
*Hugh McDonnell, CritCom*
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