Doctrinal movements can serve as vehicles for social and political reaction.
Evidence
The reaction to Modernism connected with Pius X goes under the name of Integralism and was a theological movement aimed at reasserting Church authority against secularisation. Integralism, although ostensibly purely doctrinal, had in practice reactionary social effects, and Christian Democracy was for a long time a progressive trend within the Church. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2472
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines Integralism as the Church’s doctrinal counter-offensive to secularization, a term later Islamophobia scholarship borrows for religious reaction.
- XREF: Connects to the toolkit’s interest in how doctrinal purity claims mask political interests, echoing hegemony/common-sense analysis.