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Catholicism and the Great War

Religion and Everyday Life in Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914–1922

By: Patrick J. Houlihan

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Catholicism and the Great War

Religion and Everyday Life in Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914–1922

By: Patrick J. Houlihan

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.

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1316298590

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Religious Humanitarianism during the World Wars, 1914–1945

Between Atheism and Messianism

By: Patrick J. Houlihan

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Religious Humanitarianism during the World Wars, 1914–1945

Between Atheism and Messianism

By: Patrick J. Houlihan

The history of modern war has focused on destruction; however, practices of saving lives and rebuilding societies have received far less scrutiny. The world wars reconfigured geopolitics on a sacred-secular spectrum dominated by the USA and the USSR. In these events, the motivations of humanitarian actors are disputed as either secular or religious, evoking approval or censure. Although modern global humanitarianism emerged during the world wars, it is often studied in a Euro-centric framework that does not engage the conflicts' globality. The effects of humanitarianism during the Second World War look toward the post-1945 era with not enough reflection on the pre-1945 history of humanitarianism. Thus, what is needed is a critical history beyond moralizing, bringing synchronic and diachronic expansion to study questions of continuity and change. A global history of religious humanitarianism during both world wars places faith-based humanitarianism on a spectrum of belief and unbelief.

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1009472232

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Catholicism and the Great War

By: Patrick J. Houlihan

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A transnational comparative history of lived religion and everyday Catholicism in Germany and Austria-Hungary during the Great War.

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1107035147

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Catholicism and the Great War

Catholicism and the Great War

Religious Humanitarianism during the World Wars, 1914–1945

Religious Humanitarianism during the World Wars, 1914–1945

Catholicism and the Great War

Catholicism and the Great War

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