Seminaries--set apart from the secular world and seen by some as a breeding ground for
clericalist attitudes that fostered the sex abuse crisis--have come in for criticism.
As a result of the distorted history taught in schools, it is widely ignored that during Ottoman rule the church allied itself with the conquerors and a
clericalist regime that sucked people dry was imposed.
It has struck a blow to
clericalist ambitions and heartened the sometimes weary and harried defenders of church-state separation and religious liberty."
This author indicates that the theories most aligned with conspiracy theories, especially regarding the risk of Patagonian vulnerability, were linked in the 1930s to "anti-labor, anti-left and antimodern" nationalism, defined as "reactionary", "
clericalist" and "defenders of the limits of democratic practices".
The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria had been offered the Mexican throne after French troops had crossed the Atlantic to impose a conservative
clericalist regime in place of the republican government of Benito Juarez, which, after winning a civil war, had suspended payment of foreign debts.
For "what no one properly to be a called a humanist could adhere to was an Augustinian belief in the total and helpless depravity of fallen man, or to Lutheran solifidianism, or to a
clericalist view by which the priesthood acted as the sole channel of grace, or to a total denial of free enquiry" (G.
The polar opposite to Anatole France in both literature and politics, the antiDreyfusard Barres involved himself with Action Francaise, the anti-semitic and
clericalist monarchist party which advocated a mystical, ethnic and ultramontane nationalism, and still sought revanche for the 1871 French defeat.
The spontaneous and informal devotion was taken in hand by the church, which enjoyed a revival of influence that was confirmed by the installation of an authoritarian regime sympathetic to
clericalist values in 1932.
Zameret, 'Yes to a Jewish State, No to a
Clericalist State: The Mapai Leadership and Its Attitude to Religion and Religious Jews," in On Both Sides of the Bridge: Religion and State in the Early Years of Israel, edited by M.
The HU-LCD would do this due to its
clericalist agenda, while the Social Democrats would solve their clan's economic agenda, according to Donskis, who also wrote that democracy in Lithuania survives only due to EU membership.
The new governments alternated between French Revolution style laicist regimes and
clericalist conservative governments.