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Hoffman, Aaron. "German immigrants in Dubois County, Indiana, and the temperance movement of the 1850s." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1041886.
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In the 1850s, many of Indiana's native-born Protestant population perceived the traditions and customs of German immigrants, specifically those concerning drinking alcoholic beverages and beer, as a threat to their "American way of life." They believed that the Germans' public drinking habits and behavior were the source of social problems causing instability and disorder prevalent in many of their communities. Although these problems were caused by Indiana's rapid industrialization and urbanization, older-stock Hoosiers blamed them on the readily identifiable immigrants. During the 1850s, temperance advocates in Indiana sought to force the German immigrants to conform to native-born Anglo-American culture to solve these problems of societal order and control. The temperance movement in Indiana was a fight to impose American cultural values on immigrants. Though temperance was a powerful social and political force in Indiana in the 1850s, it could not alter the tight-knit German Catholic community of Dubois County.The numerical strength of the German community and their strong opposition to assimilation hindered the temperance movement in Dubois County. The prominent role of the local Catholic Church and the Germans' common ethnic and cultural identity were two main factors in keeping temperance out of the county. Other significant factors were the permanent nature of the Germanimmigrants' settlement, the rural isolation of the county, the domination of the local Democratic party, and the prominence of beer in the German-Americans' culture.This study is historically important for several reasons. First, the reaction of this specific community to the antebellum temperance campaign provides a more complete understanding of how German immigrants in Indiana and the Midwest dealt with the problems of assimilation. Second, by focusing on a rural area, the German reaction to the issues of assimilation and temperance can be identified and examined independent of the urban problems of industrialization, overcrowding, and unemployment. Finally, it also constitutes the only known interpretation of the Indiana temperance movement from the perspective of those it most affected: the immigrants themselves.Department of History
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Brodie, Thomas O. "For Christ and Germany : German Catholicism and the Second World War." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0d66efa0-28df-4b9c-a74c-a79b434bbc7a.
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This dissertation examines the roles played by Catholicism on the German Home Front during the Second World War. It analyses to what extent German Catholics supported their nation’s war effort, and how they sought to reconcile their religious convictions with Nazism and its conduct of the conflict. The thesis examines the oscillations of morale within the Catholic ‘milieu’ during the war years, and analyses its responses to German defeats from 1943 onwards. In addition to these overtly political themes, this dissertation analyses the social history of religion during this period. In order to focus its analysis on a manageable scale, this thesis focuses on the experiences and activities of Catholics from the Rhineland and Westphalia. Its concluding chapter uses its findings concerning Catholicism during the war years to revise current understandings of the formation of a conservative ‘restoration’ in West Germany after May 1945. Many existing works concerning German Catholicism during this period provide a monolithic portrayal of the confession’s internal coherence, and domination of its adherents’ political beliefs. This thesis, by contrast, argues that profound divides existed amongst German Catholics during the Second World War. Younger clergymen were frequently more sympathetic to völkisch nationalism than their older colleagues, and desired a more pro-Nazi stance from the German episcopate. The Catholic laity, moreover, was similarly often frustrated by the conservatism of episcopal Neo-Scholastic theology, and wanted sermons and pastoral letters that would endorse the German war effort in more unambiguous terms. The war years witnessed a complex negotiation of religious, political and national loyalties amongst Catholic communities, ensuring the thesis provides a nuanced picture of the confession’s place in German society during this period.
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Fenwick, Luke Peter. "Religion in the wake of 'total war' : Protestant and Catholic communities in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, 1945-9." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:65aa7e61-37ce-492a-8024-c94ac5b028bc.
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By May 1945, most major German cities lay in ruins, and a largely demoralised population struggled for subsistence in many areas. National Socialist remnants, Christian faith and communist ideology met in the rubble of the Third Reich. The Protestant and Catholic Churches attempted to ‘re-Christianise’ the Volk and reverse secularisation, while the German communists sought to inspire dynamism for their socialist project in Eastern Germany. This thesis recreates the religious world of Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia in the Soviet zone, 1945-9, and analyses ‘religio-politics’ (the interactions between the secular authorities and the Churches), the affairs of the priesthood/pastorate, and the behaviours, mentalities and emotions of ‘ordinary people’ amongst the pews. After the American withdrawal in July 1945, the Soviet authorities occupied the entirety of Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, and they proclaimed a ‘freedom of religion’. The realities of this policy were different in each state, and the resolution or non-resolution of local-level disputes often determined Church and State relations. At the grassroots, though, many people engaged in a latent social revolt against all forms of authority. The Churches’ hopes of ‘re-Christianisation’ in 1945 were dashed by 1949, despite a brief and ultimately superficial ‘revival’. The majority of people did not attend church services regularly, many allegedly practiced ‘immorality’, and refused to adopt ‘Christian neighbourly love’ in helping often-destitute refugees. ‘Re-Christianisation’ also did not incur comprehensive denazification or a unified pastorate, and there was even a continuation of the Third Reich Kirchenkampf in some areas. Christian ideas of guilt for a popular turning from God, much less for Nazism and its crimes, rarely resonated amongst the population and some sections of the pastorate. This mentality encapsulated the popular rejection of authority, whether spiritual or political, that endured up to and beyond the foundation of the German Democratic Republic in October 1949.
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Scholz, Stephan. "Der deutsche Katholizismus und Polen : (1830-1849) : Identitätsbildung zwischen konfessioneller Solidarität und antirevolutionärer Abgrenzung /." Osnabrück : Fibre-Verl, 2005. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=013129556&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Ehret, Ulrike Carmen. "Catholics and antisemitism in Germany and England, 1918-1939." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2006. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/catholics-and-antisemitism-in-germany-and-england-19181939(0e1851e5-c95b-4fb1-9897-48d8a44933fb).html.
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Pickel, Gert, Yvonne Jaeckel, and Alexander Yendell. "Glauben feiern, Spaß haben und über Politik diskutieren – der Katholikentag und seine Facetten." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-202821.
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Mehr als 50.000 Besucher kamen 2014 zum Deutschen Katholikentag
in Regensburg. Die Großveranstaltung ist dabei nicht nur eine religiöse
Veranstaltung für Katholiken, sie hat auch einen starken gesellschaftspolitischen Bezug und ist offen für Andersgläubige und Nichtgläubige.
Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich die Frage, was dessen Attraktivität
ausmacht. Welche sozialen Gruppen zieht der Katholikentag an? Aus
welchen Gründen besuchen die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer ihn?
Sind die Besucher religiös, eher politisch motiviert oder beides? Ist der
Katholikentag insbesondere für junge und vielleicht gar nicht so besonders
religiöse Menschen ein Spaßevent? Verliert der Katholikentag deshalb seinen traditionellen Charakter? Auf Grundlage einer religionssoziologischen
Befragung zum 99. Deutschen Katholikentag in Regensburg werden Aussagen über die Besuchsmotive, die Wünsche bezüglich der Ausgestaltung des Katholikentags, die religiöse Praxis seiner Teilnehmer,
deren freiwilliges kirchliches und außerkirchliches Engagement sowie über die soziale Herkunft der Besucher gemacht. Damit liegt ein einmaliges empirisches Material vor, welches die Debatten um religiöse Pluralisierung, Säkularisierung und Individualisierung anreichert.
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Lees, James Christopher. "Clemens Wenzeslaus, German Catholicism, and the French Revolution, 1768-1792." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608113.
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Slosar, John Roy. "The response of the German bishops to the Reichskonkordat." PDXScholar, 1985. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3543.
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This thesis focuses on the reaction of the German bishops to the Reichskonkordat, which was negotiated between the Vatican and the German government from April 10, 1933 to September 10, 1933. The paper attempts to show that the views of the episcopate were their own and did not always correspond to those of the Vatican. While secondary sources offer an important supplement, the account relies mostly on published documents. In particular, the Catholic Church documents compiled from the Reichskonkordat negotiations and the correspondence of the German bishops during the year 1933 were used most extensively.
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Scheidgen, Hermann-Josef. "Der deutsche Katholizismus in der Revolution von 1848/49." Köln [u.a.] : Böhlau, 2008. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=017005796&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Roethler, Jeremy S. "Germany's Catholic fraternities and the Weimar Republic /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10372.
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Kitzinger, Denis. "Dietrich von Hildebrand : a Catholic intellectual in the Weimar Republic." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15908.
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This thesis examines the intellectual activity of the German Catholic philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977) during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). It fills a gap both in the Hildebrand scholarship and the history of Weimar Catholicism. It examines Hildebrand as an intellectual (following Stefan Collini's analytical concept), and argues that he can most adequately be described as a neo-conservative Catholic intellectual. Hildebrand was a profoundly religious person whose principal goal was the personal sanctification of educated Catholics through the renewal of the Catholic ethos. To this end he presented the Catholic worldview not in the form of neo-scholasticism as recently initiated by Pope Leo XIII, but in a new form. At the center of his novel presentation stood his Catholic personalism and his phenomenological value ethics. After an introductory chapter that outlines Hildebrand's upbringing, formation, and education with an eye to his conversion to the Catholic faith in 1914, the thesis situates and analyzes Hildebrand in the context of the four main discourses that he participated in during the Weimar Republic: Chapter two examines Hildebrand's contribution to the discourse on Siegkatholizismus, the confidence of Catholics to re- Christianize German and European culture after the First World War; chapter three examines Hildebrand's novel justification of Catholic teaching in the discourse on the crisis of marriage and sexuality during the middle years of the Republic; chapter four engages his social thought and his views on the relation between person and community during the final period of Weimar Germany; and chapter five explores Hildebrand's transnational activity against the background of a growing transformation of Catholic supranational identity through nationalism shortly before the Nazi takeover of power in 1933.
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O'Boyle, Aidan. "Towards a contemporary wisdom christology : some Catholic christologies in German, English and French 1965-1995 /." Roma : Ed. Pontificia università gregoriana, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39095868h.
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Frymire, John Marshall. "Pestilence and Reformation: Catholic preaching and a recurring crisis in sixteenth-century Germany." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/279789.
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This study examines some of the plague sermons of German Catholic preachers during the sixteenth century, the era of the Reformation. It takes the question, "What was preached?" and applies it to a hitherto neglected genre of sources to investigate how Catholic preachers responded to a recurring, pre-Reformation crisis---plague---and how they interpreted that crisis during an era of revolutionary religious change. Special attention is given to the themes of astrology and the causes of plague, interpretations of epidemic disease in terms of divine wrath, plague prevention and social discipline. By comparing some of the Catholic plague sermons with those of their Protestant counterparts, similarities emerge to reveal a shared "Catholic" tradition, just as differences become apparent that reflect many of the debates between the confessions in sixteenth-century Germany. The theme of Catholic preaching and the German Reformation itself, however, has received little attention in the field, despite the fact that scholars have begun to devote much research and exposition to Protestant sermons during the period. Contrary to common opinion--that Catholics failed to measure up to their evangelical counterparts in the pulpits--this study also sketches some of the contours of Catholic preaching during the first three decades of the Reformation: major preachers, the sources, and some of the themes they emphasized. Conceived as both a thesis and as an outline for further research, it is argued here that the Catholic response from the pulpits was of greater scope and higher quality than has hitherto been assumed.
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Grütz, Reinhard. "Katholizismus in der DDR-Gesellschaft 1960-1990 : kirchliche Leitbilder, theologische Deutungen und lebensweltliche Praxis im Wandel /." Paderborn : F. Schöningh, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb392015206.
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Schank, Christoph. ""Kölsch-katholisch" : das katholische Milieu in Köln (1871-1933) /." Köln [u.a.] : Böhlau, 2004. http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0d7k1-aa.
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Theriault, Barbara M. "The "Conservative Revolutionaries": the protestant and catholic churches in East Germany after radical political change." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211547.
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Tomko, Helena M. "Sacramental realism Gertrud von le Fort and German Catholic literature in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich (1924-46) /." London : Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association, 2007. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/85332939.html.
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Tomko, Helena Mary. "Sacramental realism : Gertrud von le Fort and German Catholic literature in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich (1924-46)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273439.
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Paul, Juliette. "The manuscript presentation volume of Jane Barker and her imaginative Catholic faith." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5913.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 30, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
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Fenwick, Luke Peter. "Catholic and Protestant faith communities in Thuringia after the Second World War, 1945-1948." Thesis, University of Canterbury. History, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2784.
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In 1945, many parts of Germany lay in rubble and there was a Zeitgeist of exhaustion, apathy, frustration and, in places, shame. German society was disorientated and the Catholic and Protestant churches were the only surviving mass institutions that remained relatively independent from the former Nazi State. Allowed a general religious freedom by the occupying forces, the churches provided the German population with important spiritual and material support that established their vital post-war role in society. The churches enjoyed widespread popular support and, in October 1946, over 90 percent of the population in the Soviet zone (SBZ) claimed membership in either confession. This thesis is a social history that examines the position of the churches in Thuringia, as a case study, between 1945 and 1948 and aims to evaluate their social and moral influence on the population. It seeks to readdress the considerable dearth of historiographical attention given to the role of the churches in people's everyday lives. In summary, despite a general religious revival in 1945, the popularity of the churches was both short-lived and superficial. Although the churches were industrious in attempting to provide for everybody, the acute destitution encountered by the Thuringian population in 1945 was a chronic problem that undermined the authority of the churches. This was revealed in the inability of the churches to influence faith communities to regularly attend church, to welcome refugees and to feel some responsibility for the Nazi past. Meanwhile, by 1948, the dominant political party, the Socialist Unity Party (SED), had tightened its control over social life in the SBZ. Instead of heeding the voice and dictates of the churches, the population fell into an ideological apathy that favoured the SED, despite the party's own widespread unpopularity. The result was the almost unchallenged, increasing power of socialism in the SBZ that ultimately led to the establishment of the German Democratic Republic under the aegis of the SED with the churches' acquiescence.
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Aldridge, Guy B. "Forgotten and Unfulfilled: German Transitions in the French Occupation Zone, 1945-1949." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1427127938.
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Weise, Wilhelm. "Der Hof der Kölner Erzbischöfe in der Zeit Kaiser Friedrich Barbarossas." Düsseldorf : Droste, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb399771190.
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Ellis-Marino, Elizabeth Meta, and Elizabeth Meta Ellis-Marino. "Politics, Nobility and Religion in an Ecclesiastical State: Baronial Families in Paderborn 1568 - 1661." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/594910.
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This dissertation examines the fortunes of two families of the territorial nobility in Paderborn, the barons (Freiherren) of Büren, and the baronets (Adelherren) of Fürstenberg. In doing so, it provides a paradigm for understanding the history of the territory over the course of the period 1550–1650. In contrast to their contemporaries in southern Germany, the nobles of Westphalia, the area of Germany in which Paderborn is located, are relatively under-studied. My research indicates that this area, with its myriad small territories and relative power vacuum, was also a microcosm for the political developments of the Holy Roman Empire. In studying these families, the culture of politics in the early modern Empire is illuminated. This dissertation is arranged thematically, where each chapter uses an incident in this territory to discuss a broad theme. My first chapter discusses the development of a significant party of Protestant nobles in Paderborn, and discusses the creation and reinforcement of noble identity. Particular attention is paid to the cultures of noble friendships and patronage. The political usefulness of the feud is also discussed. The second chapter examines a case of two conversions. Elisabeth von Büren, a recently-widowed Calvinist noblewoman, converted from Protestantism to Catholicism because of her increasingly difficult social and political situation. In contrast, her son Moritz experienced an internal conversion that led him to join the Jesuit order, an act that in time resulted in the extinction of this family. This chapter discusses not only the motivations for each conversion, but also the political uses of these converts, and their conversion narratives. The third chapter follows the political fortunes of two brothers, Kaspar and Dietrich von Fürstenberg. Due to his vocal alliance to the Catholic faction in Paderborn, Dietrich, who was a priest, was able to become an imperial prince. His brother, Kaspar, who was the head of the family, not only benefited from this rise in status, but also had to change his sexual practices in response to his family's increased notoriety. This chapter discusses the effects of the Counter-Reformation in Paderborn in both the public and private spheres. The fourth chapter discusses the descendant of these two men, Ferdinand von Fürstenberg. Thanks to his connections and the political realities in Westphalia after the Thirty Years' War, Ferdinand was able not only to become the prince-bishop of Paderborn, but also to enact administrative reform in the rural parishes and employ irenicism, a proto-secularist philosophy, as an aspect of his foreign policy. Ferdinand's patronage networks are analyzed in the context of post 1648 elite intellectual and cultural life. The last two chapters concentrate on the physical legacy of the two Fürstenberg bishops previously discussed. The fifth chapter discusses the "Reformation of the Landscape" enacted through the building programs of these two bishops. Through the building and decoration of monumental structures, the two bishops helped to impose a Catholic order on the countryside, and erase the signs of the previous, defeated Protestant faction. The final chapter discusses the funerary monuments of the family from which these two bishops came. Although they are scattered throughout the region, the funerary monuments of this family form a coherent propagandistic message, intended to promote their majesty, nobility and Catholicism.
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Kohle, Maria. "Das Paderborner Gesangbuch 1609 : das älteste erhaltene katholische Gesangbuch Westfalens und sein gottesdienstlicher Gebrauch im Dienst der Katholischen Reform /." Paderborn : Bonifatius, 2004. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy054/2005377827.html.
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Stefaniuk, Thomas. "Diaspora Destiny: Joseph Jessing and Competing Narratives of Nation, 1860-1899." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343309825.
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Rommel, Martina. "Demut und Standesbewusstsein Rekrutierung und Lebenswelt des Säkularklerus der Diözese Mainz 1802-1914 /." Mainz : C.P. Verlag e.K, 2007. http://books.google.com/books?id=2yLZAAAAMAAJ.
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Mitzscherlich, Birgit. "Diktatur und Diaspora : das Bistum Meissen 1932-1951 /." Paderborn : Schöningh, 2005. http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f7v7-aa.
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Korta, Stefan. "Der katholische Kirchenvertrag Sachsen /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2001. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/322299608.pdf.
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Bünker, Arnd. "Missionarisch Kirche sein? : eine missionswissenschaftliche Analyse von Konzepten zur Sendung der Kirche in Deutschland /." Münster : Lit, 2004. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=013015236&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Kumm, Renate. "Das Bistum Hildesheim in der Nachkriegszeit : Untersuchung einer Diaspora-Diözese vom Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs bis zum Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil ; (1945 bis 1965) /." Hannover : Hahn, 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/354854062.pdf.
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Univ., Diss. u.d.T.: Kumm, Renate: Das Bistum Hildesheim vom Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges bis zum II. Vatikanischen Konzil (1945 bis 1965): unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Aufnahme katholischer Flüchtlinge und Vertriebener. - In der Vorlage genanntes Diss.-Jahr: 2001--Hannover, 2002.Mit Register.
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Wätjer, Jürgen. "Das katholische Domkapitel zu Hamburg von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation und seine Wiedererrichtung 1996 : eine kanonistische Untersuchung /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2001. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sbb-berlin/322103711.pdf.
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Scholz, Sebastian. "Politik - Selbstverständnis - Selbstdarstellung : die Päpste in karolingischer und ottonischer Zeit /." Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb411598188.
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Ferla, Joselia Jantsch. "HELMA BERCH E O ENSINO DE MÚSICA NO CONTEXTO DA IMIGRAÇÃO ALEMÃ CATÓLICA DO VALE DO TAQUARI." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2009. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/6895.
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The present dissertation, linked to line of research Education and Arts of Postgraduate Program in Education LP4, Federal University of Santa Maria, sought to analyze the trajectory of Helma Bersch teacher, in front of music
teaching in the German catholic immigration context, in South of Brazil. This teacher worked professionally in the period of 1932 to 1981, in school society of Dona Rita, located in Arroio do Meio County, in Taquari Valley, northwest region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Yet, sought to investigate the process of musical formation of the teacher Helma Berch; to know the musical practices developed in the room of school, as well as to examine the repercussion of Helma s work to the community of Dona Rita. This study, of qualitative nature, utilized the
methodological resources of oral history to build the teacher s trajectory, based on Bourdieu (2006), Levi (2006) and Schmidt (2000), in the perspective in which the
history of a life is taken as a gateway to the articulation of issues or broader contexts. Also were utilized Kreutz s works (2004, 2000, 1999 and 1994), Garbosa (2006, 2004 and 2003) and Bersch (2006). To analyze the trajectory of the teacher Helma Berch was possible to record the person s history that made of her own life a part of the history of music teaching in the Brazilian schools and bringing to the discussion the specificities in relation to way to conceive the teaching, in period and context analyzed. It was possible to consider about the specificities of pedagogic practices, the didactic materials, the upbringing, the musicals
instruments presents in the context, as well as the repercussions of the work developed by Helma in the society of Dona Rita. However, through this study, was
possible to highlight the contribution this group of immigrant in the economic and cultural developing this Valley, where the music exerted important function in the
integration, identification and diffusion of cultural elements, being the school the place chosen as responsible to reach and to keep the status quo in that time.A presente dissertação, vinculada à linha de pesquisa Educação e Artes - LP4, do Programa de Pós Graduação em Educação, da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, buscou analisar a trajetória da professora Helma Bersch, frente ao ensino de música no contexto da imigração alemã católica do sul do país, a qual atuou profissionalmente no período de 1932 a 1981, na Sociedade Escolar Dona Rita, localizada em Arroio do Meio, no Vale do Taquari, região noroeste do estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Buscou-se ainda investigar o processo de formação musical da professora; conhecer as práticas musicais desenvolvidas em sala de aula; assim como examinar a repercussão do trabalho de Helma para a comunidade de Dona Rita. Este estudo, de natureza qualitativa, utilizou os recursos metodológicos da história oral, alicerçando-se em estudos de Bourdieu (2006), Levi (2006) e Schmidt (2000), em uma perspectiva na qual a história de uma vida é tomada como via de acesso para a articulação de questões ou contextos mais amplos. Foram utilizados ainda como referenciais os trabalhos de Kreutz (2004, 2000, 1999, 1994), Garbosa (2006, 2004, 2003) e Bersch (2006). Ao analisar a trajetória da professora Helma Bersch, foi possível registrar a história de uma professora que fez de sua vida uma parte da história do ensino de música nas escolas Sul do Brasil, trazendo para a discussão especificidades em relação ao modo de conceber tal ensino, no período e contexto analisados. Foi possível ainda, refletir sobre a formação da professora e a formação ofertada aos alunos, as especificidades das práticas pedagógicas, os materiais didáticos utilizados, os instrumentos musicais presentes no contexto, assim como as repercussões do trabalho desenvolvido pela professora Helma, na Sociedade Escolar Dona Rita. Através deste estudo, foi possível verificar as contribuições de Helma Bersch para o desenvolvimento educacional, cultural e econômico do Vale, no qual a música exerceu importante papel de integração, identificação e difusão de elementos culturais e religiosos, sendo a escola o local escolhido para se atingir e manter o status quo do momento.
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Tischner, Wolfgang. "Katholische Kirche in der SBZ/DDR 1945 - 1951 : die Formierung einer Subgesellschaft im entstehenden sozialistischen Staat /." Paderborn [u.a.] : Schöningh, 2001. http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2003-4-015.
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Matter, Suelen Scholl. ""A encantadora tradição germânica" : uma etnografia da música entre "coralistas católicos" e "descendentes de alemães" na encosta da serra gaúcha." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/97628.
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Esta dissertação trata da formação e atualização de identidades de “descendentes de alemães” católicos (dimensão étnica e religiosa) através/a partir da prática de canto coral na região da encosta da serra gaúcha no Rio Grande do Sul, mais especificamente sobre as pessoas fazendo música e criando significados para a sua prática musical em municípios conhecidos pela história da imigração alemã – Dois Irmãos e Morro Reuter. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi estudar a construção destas práticas musicais a partir do entendimento de seus atores sociais e da experiência do encontro etnográfico, tendo como problema de pesquisa compreender como estes constroem e agenciam a sua prática musical em diferentes espaços de circulação. Através de uma etnografia da música, esta pesquisa desconstrói a ideia de senso comum de que somente os luteranos seriam teutos autênticos e evidencia que são possíveis outras configurações e combinações. “Coralistas católicos” também acionam uma identidade étnica teuto-brasileira na relação com “o outro” e destacam traços de etnicidade através de sua prática musical e de seus repertórios e discursos. Contudo, neste universo onde esses grupos de “descendentes de alemães” interagem com instituições onde são acionadas “estratégias” e “táticas” eles nem sempre são considerados parceiros ou colaboradores dentro das políticas voltadas ao turismo do projeto da “encantadora tradição germânica”.This paper deals with the formation and updating of identities "descendants of Germans" Catholics (ethnic dimension and religious dimension) through / from the practice of choral singing in Encosta da Serra Gaúcha region in Rio Grande do Sul, more specifically about people making music and creating meanings for their musical practice in cities known for their history of German immigration – Dois Irmãos and Morro Reuter. The objective of this research is to study the construction of these musical practices from understanding their social actors and the experience of ethnographic encounter, having as research problem to understand how they construct and manage their musical practice in different areas of circulation. Through ethnography of music, this research deconstructs the common sense idea that only Lutherans would be authentic Teutons, and evidences that other configurations and combinations are possible. "Catholic Choristers" also trigger German-Brazilian ethnic identity in relation to "the other" and highlight traces of ethnicity through their musical practice and their repertoires and discourses. However, in such universe where these "descendants of Germans" groups interact with institutions in which are driven "strategies" and "tactics" they are not always considered partners or contributors within the policies aimed to the "Charming German Tradition" tourism project.
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Mertens, Annette. "Himmlers Klostersturm der Angriff auf katholische Einrichtungen im Zweiten Weltkrieg und die Wiedergutmachung nach 1945 /." Paderborn : Schöningh, 2006. http://books.google.com/books?id=OzrZAAAAMAAJ.
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Payen, Guillaume. "Racines et combat. L'existence politique de Martin Heidegger : patriotisme, nationalisme et engagement d’un intellectuel européen jusqu'à l'avènement du nazisme (1889-1933)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040244.
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Cette thèse de doctorat est une biographie historique et politique de Martin Heidegger, comparé à d'autres intellectuels européens ; elle traite de l'amour de ce philosophe pour sa Heimat (pays natal) et pour l'Allemagne, articulé avec son appartenance à l'Europe et à l'Histoire de l'Être ; cette identité politique complexe va de pair avec une critique sévère du monde moderne en continuité avec ses origines catholiques conservatrices et avec une conception de la pensée « apolitique » bien qu'engagée, cela bien avant l'avènement du nazisme et le rectorat de Heidegger. De ce fait, cette thèse, qui n'évite pas la question de son engagement nazi, couvre un champ historique bien plus large et tente de mettre en lumière l'arrière-plan complexe et changeant, qui bien avant l'ascension de Hitler, permet de comparer le philosophe avec des intellectuels de droite révolutionnaire en Allemagne (Révolution conservatrice) aussi bien qu'en Europe : après la découverte du Mouvement de jeunesse et l'expérience de la guerre en 1918, Heidegger abandonna son conservatisme catholique et se convertit à l'idée d'une révolution philosophique inspirée par les idéaux de responsabilité et d'authenticité de ce mouvement de réforme de la vie. Durant les années 1920, il conçut la philosophie de plus en plus avec les idées de combat et de racines ; l'importance reconnue à la violence politique, y compris pour un but philosophique, fait clairement de Martin Heidegger un fils de ces sociétés européennes “brutalisées” par la Grande Guerre et le met nettement au milieu de ces intellectuels de droite révolutionnaireThis Ph.D. dissertation is a historical political biography of Martin Heidegger, compared with other European intellectuals ; it deals with the philosopher's love for his Heimat (homeland) and for Germany, articulated with his belonging to Europe and to the history of being ; this complex political identity goes with a severe criticism of modern world in continuity with his conservative catholic origins, and with an apolitical though engaged conception of thought, that long before the coming of Nazism and Heidegger's rectorate. For that matter, this thesis, which does not avoid the question of his Nazi engagement, has a much larger scope and tries to bring into the light the complex and changing background, that even before Hitler's elevation, allows to compare the philosopher with revolutionary right-wing intellectuals in Germany (Conservative Revolution) as well as in Europe : after the discovery of the German Youth Movement and the experience of war in 1918, Heidegger left his catholic conservatism and converted to an idea of philosophical revolution inspired by the ideals of responsibility and authenticity of this life reform movement. During the 1920's, he conceived philosophy more and more with the ideas of fight and roots ; The importance recognized to fight and violence in politics, even for a philosophical goal, makes clearly Martin Heidegger a son of these “brutalized” European after-war societies and put him in the middle of these revolutionary right-wing intellectuals
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Volk, Anette. "Archivbestände zu Tansania in der Benediktiner- Erzabtei St. Ottilien." Universität Leipzig, 2002. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A34430.
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Payen, Guillaume. "Racines et combat. L'existence politique de Martin Heidegger : patriotisme, nationalisme et engagement d’un intellectuel européen jusqu'à l'avènement du nazisme (1889-1933)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040244.
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Cette thèse de doctorat est une biographie historique et politique de Martin Heidegger, comparé à d'autres intellectuels européens ; elle traite de l'amour de ce philosophe pour sa Heimat (pays natal) et pour l'Allemagne, articulé avec son appartenance à l'Europe et à l'Histoire de l'Être ; cette identité politique complexe va de pair avec une critique sévère du monde moderne en continuité avec ses origines catholiques conservatrices et avec une conception de la pensée « apolitique » bien qu'engagée, cela bien avant l'avènement du nazisme et le rectorat de Heidegger. De ce fait, cette thèse, qui n'évite pas la question de son engagement nazi, couvre un champ historique bien plus large et tente de mettre en lumière l'arrière-plan complexe et changeant, qui bien avant l'ascension de Hitler, permet de comparer le philosophe avec des intellectuels de droite révolutionnaire en Allemagne (Révolution conservatrice) aussi bien qu'en Europe : après la découverte du Mouvement de jeunesse et l'expérience de la guerre en 1918, Heidegger abandonna son conservatisme catholique et se convertit à l'idée d'une révolution philosophique inspirée par les idéaux de responsabilité et d'authenticité de ce mouvement de réforme de la vie. Durant les années 1920, il conçut la philosophie de plus en plus avec les idées de combat et de racines ; l'importance reconnue à la violence politique, y compris pour un but philosophique, fait clairement de Martin Heidegger un fils de ces sociétés européennes “brutalisées” par la Grande Guerre et le met nettement au milieu de ces intellectuels de droite révolutionnaireThis Ph.D. dissertation is a historical political biography of Martin Heidegger, compared with other European intellectuals ; it deals with the philosopher's love for his Heimat (homeland) and for Germany, articulated with his belonging to Europe and to the history of being ; this complex political identity goes with a severe criticism of modern world in continuity with his conservative catholic origins, and with an apolitical though engaged conception of thought, that long before the coming of Nazism and Heidegger's rectorate. For that matter, this thesis, which does not avoid the question of his Nazi engagement, has a much larger scope and tries to bring into the light the complex and changing background, that even before Hitler's elevation, allows to compare the philosopher with revolutionary right-wing intellectuals in Germany (Conservative Revolution) as well as in Europe : after the discovery of the German Youth Movement and the experience of war in 1918, Heidegger left his catholic conservatism and converted to an idea of philosophical revolution inspired by the ideals of responsibility and authenticity of this life reform movement. During the 1920's, he conceived philosophy more and more with the ideas of fight and roots ; The importance recognized to fight and violence in politics, even for a philosophical goal, makes clearly Martin Heidegger a son of these “brutalized” European after-war societies and put him in the middle of these revolutionary right-wing intellectuals
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Schwab, Christian. "Das Augsburger Offizialatsregister (1348 - 1352) : ein Dokument geistlicher Diözesangerichtsbarkeit ; Edition und Untersuchung /." Köln [u.a.] : Böhlau, 2001. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sbb-berlin/324371357.pdf.
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Noma, Bikibili Paul. "L'administration des biens des Missions catholiques du Cameroun allemand (Kamerun) et du Cameroun français : vers une quête d'autonomie patrimoniale." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018STRAK010.
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Cette étude examine l’administration des biens d’Église en territoire de mission, sous l’angle de la quête d’autonomie patrimoniale. Elle évalue la mise en route progressive de l’autonomie patrimoniale des Églises devant succéder aux Missions catholiques, à travers l’analyse des sources depuis l’érection en 1622 de la Sacrée Congrégation de Propaganda Fide chargée des Missions catholiques. Ses efforts de financement s’annonçaient déjà insuffisants. Au XIXe siècle elle prescrivit une administration des biens en lien avec la quête d’autonomie patrimoniale. Une exigence prévoyant l’institution d’un clergé indigène devant trouver ses propres ressources. Elle instaura la pratique d’envoyer des vicaires apostoliques dans les territoires de mission pour mettre en route l’autonomie patrimoniale. Les vingt-cinq années d’administration des biens par les Pallottins se soldèrent par une autonomie financière, défi difficile pour les SpiritainsThis study examines the administration of the property of Catholic Missions in mission territory, from the perspective of the quest for patrimonial autonomy. It evaluates of the gradual implementation of the patrimonial autonomy of the future Churches to succeed the catholic Missions, through the analysis of sources since the erection on 1622 of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide in charge of catholic Missions. Its financing efforts announced insufficient. In the nineteenth century it prescribed an administration of property in connection with the quest for patrimonial autonomy. Such a requirement provided for the institution of a native clergy to find their own resources. It established the practice of sending apostolic vicars to mission territories to initiate the quest for patrimonial autonomy. The twenty-five years of administration of the property by the Pallottines ended in financial autonomy, a difficult challenge for the Spiritans
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Guillaume, Damien. "Les débuts de l'"agitation antisémitique" en France dans une perspective européenne : contribution à l'histoire de l'antisémitisme." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0198.
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Les débuts d'une agitation proprement « antisémite » en France (non seulement en 1886 avec la parution de La France juive d'Édouard Drumont mais dès le début de la décennie) n'ont guère été considérés par l'historiographie qu'au regard de la situation nationale. Pourtant, ces débuts coïncidèrent très exactement avec divers développements de la « question juive » à l'échelle européenne auxquels les premiers antisémites français firent d'ailleurs abondamment référence. La thèse se propose d'explorer cette séquence exceptionnelle de quelques années (approximativement 1878-1884) à travers sa réception française et tâche de mettre en évidence sa profondeur historique. L'adoption d'une focale large (ou perspective européenne) permet ainsi de dégager une dynamique de fond qui correspond à l'émergence progressive, tout au long du XIXe siècle, d'une « question juive » considérée par l'ouest du continent comme typiquement est-européenne. À ce titre, le tournant des années 1880 ne fut pas seulement le moment où se fit jour en Allemagne puis ailleurs cette forme d'hostilité antijuive supposée nouvelle et autoproclamée « antisémitique ». Elle fut également – en particulier avec les polémiques sur les juifs de Roumanie lors du congrès de Berlin puis l'écho international donné à la vague de pogroms russes de 1881-1882 – une étape cruciale dans la rencontre de deux hémisphères à la fois géographiques et thématiques de la « question juive ».Ainsi mis en contexte, les débuts de l'agitation antisémite en France ne se limitèrent pas à l'émergence d'une forme particulièrement radicale d'hostilité antijuive, initiative de quelques polémistes plus ou moins en vue et de structures militantes souvent marginales. Ces débuts confirmèrent parallèlement l'existence de profondes équivoques chez les tenants d'une approche libérale de la « question juive », c'est-à-dire ceux qui étaient les plus susceptibles de défendre les juifs face aux attaques de leurs ennemisThe beginnings of the "anti-Semitic" agitation in France in the 1880s – not only with the publication of Edouard Drumont's La France juive in 1886 but even earlier in the same decade – have been explained above all by national factors in the historiography. Yet, they coincided with various concerns about the "Jewish question" on a European scale, concerns to which the first French anti-Semites were extensively referring in their texts.This PhD thesis explores (in depth) the French reception of a European phenomenon during the span of a few exceptional years (approximately 1878 to 1884). By focusing on the European context this study reveals the gradual emergence, throughout the nineteenth century, of a "Jewish question" considered by the West of the continent as typically Eastern European. As such, the turning point of the 1880s was not only the moment when, first in Germany and then in other countries, this supposedly new form of anti-Jewish hostility arose, which was called by its actors itself "anti-Semitic". These years were also – especially with the controversies over the Jews of Romania at the Congress of Berlin and the international echo given to the wave of pogroms of 1881-1882 in Russia – a crucial step in the confrontation between two hemispheres, both geographical and thematic, of the "Jewish question."Thus put in context, the beginnings of anti-Semitic agitation in France were not limited to the emergence of a particularly radical form of anti-Jewish hostility, initiated by some more or less known polemists or rather marginal groups. These beginnings also confirmed the existence of profoundly equivocal attitudes among proponents of a liberal approach to the "Jewish question," that is to say, those who were most likely to defend the Jews against the attacks of their enemies
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Swartout, Lisa Fetheringill. "Dueling identities : Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish students in the German Empire, 1890-1914 /." 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3082422.
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Chong, Nicholas Junkai. "Beethoven’s Catholicism: A Reconsideration." Thesis, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8RJ4JMK.
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Since the middle of the nineteenth century, accounts of Beethoven’s religious attitudes have consistently sought to separate the composer from the Catholic religion in which he was born. It is often assumed that, as a child of the Enlightenment, Beethoven cannot have felt a strong affinity for Catholic beliefs, preferring instead an idiosyncratic and unorthodox approach to religion that was suspicious of dogma and tradition. This has led, in turn, to the scholarly marginalization of his religious music, with the Missa Solemnis being the notable exception. On the one hand, Beethoven’s religious works other than the Missa have been frequently dismissed as inauthentic “occasional works” written purely for commercial reasons. On the other hand, the Missa itself, though regarded as a “true” Beethoven work, has been largely interpreted as a de-Catholicized vehicle for the expression of the composer’s untraditional religious outlook.
This dissertation challenges long-accepted views of Beethoven and his religious music by demonstrating that they were more heavily influenced by Catholic theological ideas than is usually thought. I focus especially on the connection between the composer and the Bavarian Catholic theologian Johann Michael Sailer (1751-1832), the most important contemporary religious figure for understanding Beethoven’s religious attitudes. In addition, given its monumental scale and its prominence in Beethoven scholarship, I devote special attention to the Missa Solemnis, which the composer was working on at the time of his first documented contact with Sailer and his writings. However, I also investigate other evidence linking Beethoven with the Catholicism of his time: religious references in documentary sources such as Beethoven’s letters, his Tagebuch, and the Heiligenstadt Testament; religious books by theologians other than Sailer in Beethoven’s library; and the musical content of the religious works Beethoven wrote before the Missa, especially the Gellert-Lieder, Christus am Ölberge, and the Mass in C.
My study shows that much previous scholarship has misinterpreted or overlooked the significance of such evidence, owing to an inadequate understanding of the complex nature of German Catholicism during Beethoven’s era. I draw on revisionist historical research showing that the Enlightenment was not, as is often believed, fundamentally opposed to traditional religious belief. Beethoven’s religious environment was, for instance, defined by a historical phenomenon that has been called the German Catholic Enlightenment, which, broadly speaking, attempted to reconcile Catholic belief with some of the liberal, progressive ideals normally associated with the Enlightenment in general. The composer appears to have been interested in several specific religious themes emblematic of this Catholic Enlightenment. At the same time, he seems also to have been attracted by some other ideas associated with the Catholic Restoration, a movement that emerged at least partly in opposition to the Catholic Enlightenment. This mixed allegiance was similar to that which characterized Sailer’s theology, and likely accounts for why he found Sailer such an appealing figure around the time he was composing the Missa Solemnis.
A more complete and historically coherent understanding of Beethoven’s religious context suggests that the composer was more of a Catholic than he has so often been made out to be, albeit one who was attracted to varieties of Catholicism that have become obscured by the mists of history.
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KRČÁLOVÁ, Ludmila. "Jihlavští premonstráti a náboženský a národní život ve městě v 19. století." Master's thesis, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-49343.
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The thesis covers Czech-German relation in mainly German Jihlava and gradual national awareness of Czech minority in given time period. The religious and social life of this minority was closely linked with the Catholic Church. Main pastoral service for Czech people was provided by the St.Jacob's parish, administred by Premonstratensians from Strahov. Cultural and religious life was interconnected in observed period, therefore in the thesis there is information about education at that time included. And because the proportion between nationalities changed over the years, there is also information about the demographic development. The main subject of the thesis is the means of pastoration and the forms of religious life closely associated with the national life. Even at that time, the position of the Catholic Church was not as simple as it may seem at first sight.
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Cebulski, Lenore Michelle. "Constructing an ethnic identity : a study of the gravestones of Catholic German-Americans /." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10288/467.
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Bjork, James Edward. "Neither German nor Pole : Catholicism and national ambivalences in Upper Silesia, 1890-1914 /." 1999. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:9951763.
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Alvis, Robert E. "Religion and the rise of nationalism in East-Central Europe : a case study of Poznań, 1793-1843 /." 2000. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:9990522.
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Cooney, Theresa Ann. "The priority of form in Carl Schmitt's early theological perspective." Thesis, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/16365.
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This dissertation offers new insights into Carl Schmitt's early Catholic thought, especially Die Sichtbarkeit der Kirche and Römischer Katholizismus und politische Form. Focusing on the concept of "form," I examine Schmitt's idiosyncratic usage of the term, its theological underpinnings, and the implication of Schmitt's early Catholic thought for understanding his place in the history of mid-20th-century political thought. Schmitt is best known as a political theorist of "decisionism" and "the exception," who favors the extra-legal, irrational, and existential in shaping "the political." His theory arises from theological commitments later obscured by his association with the Nazis. I argue that Schmitt's theological perspective and his concept of form reinforce one another by elevating a particular brand of personalist, juridical rationality that establishes the basis of a polemic against the irrational in political and religious life. Placing Schmitt's concept of political form in dialogue with his Catholic public intellectualism, I explore Schmitt's early attempts to overcome the form/substance dichotomy in political theory through his use of theological constructs. Beginning with responses of other high-profile Catholic intellectuals to Sichtbarkeit and Römischer Katholizismus, I find that concerns with political form, representation, and the threats of the "mechanization" of liberal bureaucracy and anarchic atheism were shared by Schmitt's peers. Through an analysis of Schmitt's early articulations of the relationship between form and substance--in his strictly legal and political writings and in his Catholic writings--I demonstrate that Schmitt emphasizes public belief, community, political action, and "personalist" representation as conditions of a viable social life. Close reading of Schmitt's theological inquiry shows that his characterization of God, Christ, human nature, and the earthly and divine kingdoms fits his understanding of political form and human sovereignty. I argue that Schmitt's theological perspective is both humanized and rendered problematic by his privileging of "form," a concept that benefits from his theological perspective, while also being hindered by it.
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Hesse, Angelika. "Eichendorffs Kritik romantischer Fehlentwicklungen." Diss., 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16941.
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Summary in EnglishRomanticism as a broad movement of thought developed as a reaction against rationalism and empiricism in the period of Enlightenment. In his critical evaluation of Getman literature Eichendorff as a historian exammes the excessiveness of esoteric theories in the work of the young intellectuals of the early romantic period in Getmany. The romanticists' idealist celebration of the self, and their tendency to overestimate the power of the imagination and the supreme value of art led to self-adulation and subjectivism which was unacceptable to Eichendorff s understanding of art and religion. The "romantic" attempt at creating a new mythology usmg art as a new kind of religion and thereby making the poet an omnipotent creator could only be rejected by Eichendorff whose moral convictions were strongly based on Christian Catholic beliefs. The young romanticists replaced ethics with aesthetics. Eichendorffs judgement of this development is devastating. He describes the early romantic movement as a "premature abortion".
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M.A. (German)