The Confessional State
The Confessional State
This chapter discusses whether Anna's story, as well as the others', represent a specifically Roman Jewish dilemma. Aside from being a product of the much larger European Jewish past, these stories are a product of the confessional state for whose continuity the Church so greatly fought. What defined this state was its incessant pursuit of that which might be achieved “in favor of the faith.” Anna's ordeal would have been unthinkable in places like the non-confessional United States or post-revolutionary France. By contrast, the legally reinforced formal structures of religion in states with official religious identities favored torments like those Anna suffered. Far more than illuminating Jewish issues alone, cases like Anna's illustrate crises which European society as a whole had to overcome.
Keywords: Anna del Monte, Roman Jews, European Jewish past, confessional states, Church, United States, post-revolutionary France, European society
Yale Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
