Catholicism and the Great War: Religion and Everyday Life in by Patrick Houlihan

By Patrick Houlihan

This transnational comparative background of Catholic daily faith in Germany and Austria-Hungary in the course of the nice battle transforms our figuring out of the war's cultural legacy. tough grasp narratives of secularization and modernism, Houlihan unearths that Catholics from the wasting powers had own and collective non secular reports that revise the decline-and-fall tales of church and country in the course of wartime. concentrating on inner most theologies and lived faith, Houlihan explores how believers adjusted to commercial struggle. Giving voice to formerly marginalized ancient actors, together with squaddies in addition to ladies and kids at the domestic entrance, he creates a relatives historical past of Catholic faith, supplementing stories of the clergy and bishops. His findings shed new mild at the range of religion during this interval and the way in particular Catholic sorts of trust and perform enabled humans from the wasting powers to deal with the warfare even more effectively than earlier cultural histories have led us to believe.

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