Priest and Parish in Vienna, 1780-1880

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-391-04094-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Studies in Central European Histories

Priest and Parish in Vienna, 1780 to 1880 is a bold, new social and cultural history of religion in modern Europe. By establishing some of the most important parameter of religious life, such as parish demographics, the economics of parish life, the social and national background of priests, and the world of Catholic sacrament and feastdays, this book contextualizes for the first time the contentious social and cultural relationship between religion and society in nineteenth-century Vienna.
In the nineteenth century, parish priests confronted tumultuous social changes such as industrialization and urbanization, which eroded clerical influence in Austria. Priests did not react well to this development and by the 1880s turned to party political activity in defense of their position within Austrian society. Eventually, many of the parish priests were mobilized into Karl Lueger's Christian Social movement. Parish priests, a very important and influential group in Austria, were therefore changed from servants of the state into political activists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowman, William

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche

Über Autor(innen)

William D. Bowman, M.A. and Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, is presently Assistant Professor of History at Gettysburg College. He has held similar appointments at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Texas Christian University. He has published several leading articles in the field of German studies in journals such as the Journal of Modern History and Austrian History Yearbook.