The article connects perceptions and analyzes the practical consequences of prejudiced, negatively stereotyped notions of women‘s identity and women‘s bodies as symbols of national-religious identity in the time and work of one of the main actors of the culture war in Slovenia, the Slovenian priest, bishop of Krk Anton Mahnič. The focus is on analyzing the influence or imprint of the negative conceptualization of women and the socio-religious constructions and representations of female identity that emerged in Slovenia from the second half of the 19th century to the beginnings of the communist revolution on the contemporary conceptualization of women and gender identity in Slovenian society, especially given the presence of modern Christian fundamentalism in Slovenia. The conceptualization of female identity during the “separation of spirits” in Slovenia and the influence of Anton Mahnič‘s neoscholastic metaphysical arguments on the conceptualization of female identity are analyzed in more detail. In this context, the article also indirectly draws attention to the question of how and where in the Slovenian socio-religious sphere one can still find visible and tangible effects of the negative conceptualization of female identity that emerged during Mahnič‘s time and under his pen.
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