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Title Religious institutes and Catholic culture in 19th- and 20th-century Europe / Urs Altermatt, Jan De Maeyer, Franziska Metzger, eds
Published Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (215 pages)
Series KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society ; 13
KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society ; 13
Contents Religious institutes as a factor of Catholic communities of communication -- Discourses and networks of knowledge. Catholic intellectual elites in the Netherlands -- Simmen der Zeit and Benediktinische Monatsschrift : the different approaches of two religious orders to the cultural communication of the Weimar Republic -- Promulgation and mediation of discourses. Convent schools in central Switzerland -- The institut St. Elisabeth : a place of conservation and encouragement of a Catholic identity for the female youth of Liechtenstein -- Creating and disseminating a Catholic subculture through children's literature -- Starving, spanking and steam trains : English Catholic patriotism and bodily penitence in the children's writing of Frances Taylor and Elizabeth Giles -- The Scandinavian Mission of the Sisters of Saint Joseph -- Religious communities and the Catholic poverty discourse in the first half of the 19th century -- Belgian Jesuits and their labourer retreats (c. 1890-1914)
Summary This volume examines the cultural contribution of religious institutes, men and women religious, and their role in the constitution of Catholic communities of communication in different European countries (England, Germany, Liechtenstein, the Low Countries, the Nordic Countries, Switzerland). The articles focus on social and cultural history by comparing both discourses and cultural and social practices, as well as examining international networks and cultural transference. How did religious institutes function as cultural elites in the production and mediation of knowledge, ideologies, cultural codes, and practices? What kind of discursive and operational strategies did they use to help construct and propagate social Catholicism, ultramontanism, and confessionalism, and to establish and promote the Catholic communication system? What were the central mechanisms in the production of knowledge and how were they incorporated within identity politics?0The volume also takes a broad perspective on the role of religious institutes in the production and propagation of religious, cultural, and social practices, and in the socialisation of the Catholic population. The focus is on cultural practices, on the transmission and transformation of attitudes, and on the rites and customs in everyday religious and social practices
Notes "D/2014/1869/22, Nur: 694"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-209) and index
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Subject Christian communities -- Catholic Church -- History -- 19th century
Christian communities -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
Christian communities -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Catholics -- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Catholics -- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
Catholics -- Intellectual life
Christian communities
Christian communities -- Catholic Church
Intellectual life
SUBJECT Europe -- Church history -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045635
Europe -- Church history -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045636
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045729
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045730
Subject Europe
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
Author Altermatt, Urs, editor.
Maeyer, Jan de, editor.
Metzger, Franziska, editor.
ISBN 9789461662149
9461662149