Author: Günter Bischof
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Like most European countries, Austria does not have a strict separation between state and church. Since the counter-reformation, it has been considered a country strongly influenced by Catholicism. Austrian attitudes towards religion derive from the Habsburg experience, when Austria's emperors and the Catholic Church acted in complete unison. This new volume in the Contemporary Austrian Studies series reevaluates this age-old tradition. Religion in Austria focuses on relationships between political parties and religious faiths. Individual chapters analyze the impact of religion on contemporary Austria. They explore the post-World War II decline--perhaps even the demise--of political Catholicism in the Second Republic; the political pluralism, which the still-dominant Catholic Church had to become accustomed to; and the principle of religious tolerance all major political parties have learned to accept. Contributors discuss the different formal (legal) links between the privileged denominations (the Catholic Church and other Christian churches, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism) and the state, especially in the areas of education and public finance. Particular emphasis is given to the two traditional Christian churches--the Roman Catholic and the Protestant (Lutherans and Reformists)--as well as to the fastest growing new denominations, Islam and Judaism. Since a growing number of Austrians declare themselves to be officially not affiliated with any of the denominations in this age of secularism, the phenomenon of the Konfessionslosen (persons without religious affiliation) is also examined. This volume presents different approaches to the changing trajectory of religious practice in Austria, including contemporary history, political science, sociology, and law. It will be of interest to sociologists, historians, and students of religion. Gnter Bischof is the 2003/4 Marshall Plan Anniversary Professor of Austrian Studies and the director of CenterAustria at the University of New Orleans. Anton Pelinka is professor of political science at the University of Innsbruck and the director of the Institute of Conflict Research in Vienna Hermann Denz is professor of sociology at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
Religion in Austria
Author: Günter Bischof
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Like most European countries, Austria does not have a strict separation between state and church. Since the counter-reformation, it has been considered a country strongly influenced by Catholicism. Austrian attitudes towards religion derive from the Habsburg experience, when Austria's emperors and the Catholic Church acted in complete unison. This new volume in the Contemporary Austrian Studies series reevaluates this age-old tradition. Religion in Austria focuses on relationships between political parties and religious faiths. Individual chapters analyze the impact of religion on contemporary Austria. They explore the post-World War II decline--perhaps even the demise--of political Catholicism in the Second Republic; the political pluralism, which the still-dominant Catholic Church had to become accustomed to; and the principle of religious tolerance all major political parties have learned to accept. Contributors discuss the different formal (legal) links between the privileged denominations (the Catholic Church and other Christian churches, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism) and the state, especially in the areas of education and public finance. Particular emphasis is given to the two traditional Christian churches--the Roman Catholic and the Protestant (Lutherans and Reformists)--as well as to the fastest growing new denominations, Islam and Judaism. Since a growing number of Austrians declare themselves to be officially not affiliated with any of the denominations in this age of secularism, the phenomenon of the Konfessionslosen (persons without religious affiliation) is also examined. This volume presents different approaches to the changing trajectory of religious practice in Austria, including contemporary history, political science, sociology, and law. It will be of interest to sociologists, historians, and students of religion. Gnter Bischof is the 2003/4 Marshall Plan Anniversary Professor of Austrian Studies and the director of CenterAustria at the University of New Orleans. Anton Pelinka is professor of political science at the University of Innsbruck and the director of the Institute of Conflict Research in Vienna Hermann Denz is professor of sociology at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Like most European countries, Austria does not have a strict separation between state and church. Since the counter-reformation, it has been considered a country strongly influenced by Catholicism. Austrian attitudes towards religion derive from the Habsburg experience, when Austria's emperors and the Catholic Church acted in complete unison. This new volume in the Contemporary Austrian Studies series reevaluates this age-old tradition. Religion in Austria focuses on relationships between political parties and religious faiths. Individual chapters analyze the impact of religion on contemporary Austria. They explore the post-World War II decline--perhaps even the demise--of political Catholicism in the Second Republic; the political pluralism, which the still-dominant Catholic Church had to become accustomed to; and the principle of religious tolerance all major political parties have learned to accept. Contributors discuss the different formal (legal) links between the privileged denominations (the Catholic Church and other Christian churches, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism) and the state, especially in the areas of education and public finance. Particular emphasis is given to the two traditional Christian churches--the Roman Catholic and the Protestant (Lutherans and Reformists)--as well as to the fastest growing new denominations, Islam and Judaism. Since a growing number of Austrians declare themselves to be officially not affiliated with any of the denominations in this age of secularism, the phenomenon of the Konfessionslosen (persons without religious affiliation) is also examined. This volume presents different approaches to the changing trajectory of religious practice in Austria, including contemporary history, political science, sociology, and law. It will be of interest to sociologists, historians, and students of religion. Gnter Bischof is the 2003/4 Marshall Plan Anniversary Professor of Austrian Studies and the director of CenterAustria at the University of New Orleans. Anton Pelinka is professor of political science at the University of Innsbruck and the director of the Institute of Conflict Research in Vienna Hermann Denz is professor of sociology at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
Religion in Austria 8
Author: Lukas K. Pokorny
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783706912204
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783706912204
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Religion in Austria 3
Author: Hans Gerald Hödl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783706909556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783706909556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Religions in Austria
Author: Danuta Kosinski
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Religion in Austria 4
Author: Hans Gerald Hödl
Publisher: Religion in Austria
ISBN: 9783706910262
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher: Religion in Austria
ISBN: 9783706910262
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 300
Book Description
Religion in Austria 6
Author: Hans Gerald Hödl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783706911436
Category :
Languages : de
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783706911436
Category :
Languages : de
Pages :
Book Description
Priest and Parish in Vienna
Author: William David Bowman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9780391040946
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"Priest and Parish in Vienna, 1780 to 1880" details the social, cultural, and political transformation of the Austrian Catholic priesthood in nineteenth-century Vienna. It shows how priests, a very important and influential group in Austria, were changed from servants of the state into political activists working for the contentious Christian Social Party in fin-de-siecle Vienna.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9780391040946
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"Priest and Parish in Vienna, 1780 to 1880" details the social, cultural, and political transformation of the Austrian Catholic priesthood in nineteenth-century Vienna. It shows how priests, a very important and influential group in Austria, were changed from servants of the state into political activists working for the contentious Christian Social Party in fin-de-siecle Vienna.
Religion in Austria 5
Author: Hans Gerald Hödl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783706911016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783706911016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Catholicism and the Great War
Author: Patrick J. Houlihan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316298590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This transnational comparative history of Catholic everyday religion in Germany and Austria-Hungary during the Great War transforms our understanding of the war's cultural legacy. Challenging master narratives of secularization and modernism, Houlihan reveals that Catholics from the losing powers had personal and collective religious experiences that revise the decline-and-fall stories of church and state during wartime. Focusing on private theologies and lived religion, Houlihan explores how believers adjusted to industrial warfare. Giving voice to previously marginalized historical actors, including soldiers as well as women and children on the home front, he creates a family history of Catholic religion, supplementing studies of the clergy and bishops. His findings shed new light on the diversity of faith in this period and how specifically Catholic forms of belief and practice enabled people from the losing powers to cope with the war much more successfully than previous cultural histories have led us to believe.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316298590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This transnational comparative history of Catholic everyday religion in Germany and Austria-Hungary during the Great War transforms our understanding of the war's cultural legacy. Challenging master narratives of secularization and modernism, Houlihan reveals that Catholics from the losing powers had personal and collective religious experiences that revise the decline-and-fall stories of church and state during wartime. Focusing on private theologies and lived religion, Houlihan explores how believers adjusted to industrial warfare. Giving voice to previously marginalized historical actors, including soldiers as well as women and children on the home front, he creates a family history of Catholic religion, supplementing studies of the clergy and bishops. His findings shed new light on the diversity of faith in this period and how specifically Catholic forms of belief and practice enabled people from the losing powers to cope with the war much more successfully than previous cultural histories have led us to believe.
Ferdinand I. and Maximilian II. of Austria
Author: Henry Rogers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description