V. V. ROZANOV’S VIEWS ON CATHOLICISM IN ITALIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
The article will shed light on the question of perception of V. V. Rozanov’s criticism of Catholicism in the segment of Italian Rozanovian Studies. Rozanov’s comprehension of Catholicism seems especially important in the light of the globalization of the historical and religious processes. The subject, still undeveloped in the national field of Rozanovian Studies, on the other hand, has been studied for a long time and in detail in Italy and Vatican. The introduction of those works into the Russian scientific circulation, the comments on them and their analysis have defined the objectives and influenced composition of the article. The complexity of Rozanov’s relations with Catholicism means the Orthodoxoriented philosophy and the “new theism”. Through the thinker’s publicist writings, there are raised the problems of the interconfessional authority and the psychology of the religious power, the issues of the foundations of the European mentality’s crisis and the potential of the church social doctrine.