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Religious Institutes in Western Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries
In the 19th century, religious institutes (orders and congregations) underwent an unprecedented revival. As partners in a large-scale religious modernisation movement, they were welcomed by the Roman Catholic Church in its pursuit of a new role in society (especially in the educational and health-care sectors). At the same time, the Church also deemed it necessary to keep their spectacular growth in check. Until the 1960s religious institutes played an important role both in society at large as well as within the church (for example, at the level of the missions, liturgy and art). Yet, relatively little research has been done on their development either in ecclesiastical or in broad cultural history. As a basis for further study, The European Forum on the History of Religious Insitutes in the 19th and 20th Centuries offers this study of the historiography of religious institutes and of their position in civil and canon law.
Offenders Or Victims?
Antisemitism is generally thought to derive from chimerical images of Jews, who became the victims of these projections. Some scholars, however, allege that the Jews? own conduct was the main cause of the hatred directed toward them in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Olaf Blaschke takes up this provocative question by considering the tensions between German Catholicism and Judaism in the period of the KulturkÜmpfe. Did Catholic resentments merely construct ?their? secular Jew? Or did their antisemitism in fact derive from their perceptions of the conduct of liberal Jewish ?offenders? during a period of social stress? Blaschke?s deeper look at this crucial period of German history, particularly as revealed in the Catholic and Jewish presses, provides new and sometimes surprising insights.
Christian Masculinity
In the mid-nineteenth century, when the idea of religion as a private matter connected to the home and the female sphere won acceptance among the bourgeois elite, Christian religious practices began to be associated with femininity and soft values. Contemporary critics claimed that religion was incompatible with true manhood, and today's scholars talk about a feminization of religion. But was this really the case? What expression did male religious faith take at a time when Christianity was losing its status as the foundation of society? This is the starting point for the research presented in Christian Masculinity. Here we meet Catholic and Protestant men struggling with and for their Chris...
Religious Identity and the Problem of Historical Foundation
The essays collected in this book deal with the question how, throughout the history of Christianity, Christian communities have tried to construct their identity by anchoring their views in authoritative and normative sources. The main focus is upon the problem of historical foundation through textual traditions but other authoritative sources ( role of religious leaders; ritual traditions) are taken into consideration as well. The book takes as its point of departure the fact that with the rise of modernity the former dependence of western church and society on authoritative sources was called into question. Ever since, appeal to such sources is no longer self-evident; at times it is even ...
Frühgeschichte des Geschlechts Altermatt
Der vorliegende Bericht zeichnet aktengestützt die frühe Spur des Geschlechts Altermatt auf, das um 1500 durch eingewanderte Bauleuten und Steinmetze aus dem süditalienisch-piemontesischen Walsergebiet Prismell in die Schweiz mitgebracht und in Solothurn plötzlich aufgetaucht war, von wo aus es eine beispiellos reiche Bautradition verbreitet hatte. Diese Frühgeschichte war bisher in vieler Hinsicht unbekannt und daher in Geschichtswerken oft falsch wiedergegeben worden. Man wusste nur von den vielen Baumeistern, Steinmetzen oder Baukünstlern sowie vor allem den vielen historisch wirksamen höheren Offizieren in französischen Solddiensten vor Napoleon, darunter mehrere Feldmarschälle. Verbreitet hat sich dieses Geschlecht später hauptsächlich im Schweizer Kanton Solothurn, im Elsass und in Michigan, USA.
Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 17701914
Interrogates the belief that the clergy defined German Catholic reading habits, showing that readers frequently rebelled against their church's rules.
Political Catholicism in Europe 1918-1945
This book examines the role of Catholic parties in inter-war Europe in a systematically pan-European comparative perspective. Specific country chapters address key questions about the parties' membership and social organization; their economic and social policies; and their European and international policies at a time of increasing national and ethnic conflict, and the book includes two survey chapters explaining the origins of political catholicism in 19th century Europe and comparing the parties' interwar development, and two chapters on transnational party contacts. Along with its companion volume, Christian Democracy in Europe Since 1945, also published in 2004, students will have an abundandce of information to guide them through their studies on this fascinating subject.
Anti-Political Establishment Parties
Recent electoral success of the Freedom Party in Austria, List Pim Fortuyn in The Netherlands, the People's Party in Denmark and the National Front in France have demonstrated the appeal of parties that challenge the political establishment. This book seeks to explain why these parties have achieved a political breakthrough, but unlike other studies in the area does not concentrate on only one type of party. Instead it attempts to determine preconditions for the success of anti-political establishment parties in general, avoiding any time specific or ideology specific explanations.
Das Bild der Schweizer Frau in Schweizer Zeitschriften
Die Historikerin Melanie Hediger untersucht in ihrer Studie, wie sich das Frauenbild und die zeitgenössische Mode in der Schweiz von 1966 bis 1976 verändert haben. Anhand zahlreicher Textbeispiele aus den Zeitschriften "Annabelle", "Schweizer Illustrierte" und "Sonntag" zeigt die Autorin auf, wie die Schweizer Frau aus ihren traditionellen Rollen ausbrach und sich zunehmend neuen Aufgaben widmete. Sie verdeutlicht zudem, dass in den drei Zeitschriften aufgrund ihrer unterschiedlich ausgerichteten Perspektiven Differenzen bezüglich des Frauenbildes festzustellen sind. So hebt sich der "Sonntag" als katholische Familienzeitschrift durch eher konservative Standpunkte von den beiden anderen Zeitschriften ab.
Die "Schildwache"
Vom Basler Pfarrer Robert Mäder mitbegründete und redigierte Zeitschrift, die 1912 zuerst in Olten und ab 1925 im Basler Nazareth Verlag erschien.
