Catholicism and the Great War
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Catholicism and the Great War

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

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Catholicism and the Great War

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

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Seriespage
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Epigraph
  8. Contents
  9. List of figures
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Note on the text
  12. List of abbreviations
  13. Introduction
  14. 1 Catholicism on the eve of the Great War in Germany and Austria-Hungary
  15. 2 Theology and catastrophe
  16. 3 The limits of religious authority: military chaplaincy and the bounds of clericalism
  17. 4 Faith in the trenches: Catholic battlefield piety during the Great War
  18. 5 The unquiet homefront
  19. 6 A voice in the wilderness: the papacy
  20. 7 Memory, mourning, and the Catholic way of war
  21. Conclusion
  22. Sources
  23. Index