HIB0357 Czech and Sudeten-German Catholicism 1918-1938

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Jaroslav Šebek, Ph.D., DSc. (lecturer), Mgr. Hana Ambrožová (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Malíř, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Hana Ambrožová
Timetable
each odd Wednesday 10:00–13:15 A21 stara
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 90 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/90, only registered: 0/90, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/90
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
This course examines the issue of the development of Czech and German Catholicism within the Czech lands as a phenomenon which affected not only the church, but whose consequences were felt also in the public sphere. The seminars aim to present the main tendencies in the structural and ideological characteristics of both Catholic communities in the Czech lands within the context of the development of papal politics and the growth of Catholicism in Central Europe.
Syllabus
  • 1.) An outline of Catholic activity as a reaction to the modernisation of society in Czech and German environs from the end of the 19th century to the First World War; the formation of a “column culture” – the origin of Catholic unions and political parties; the main ideological currents within Czech and German Catholicism in the Czech lands; the influence of papal politics in forming a European Catholicism during this period.
  • 2.) The Catholic repsonse to the foundation of the Czechoslovak state; the initial situation within the Catholic church in 1918 in Czechoslovakia and surrrounding Central European states (Austria, Poland, Germany, Hungary); the establishment and development of Czech and German Catholic organisations following the foundation of the Czechoslovak state; the origin, development and activities of Catholic political parties; the relationship between Czechoslovakia and the Vatican.
  • 3.) The Catholic Church’s relationship to modernising spiritual movements and its social activities in the interwar period; the issue of the Catholic academic elite’s influence in presenting a picture of the church to the public; ideological, spiritual and theological transformations in Czech and Sudeten-German Catholicism.
  • 4.) The mutual interaction of Czech and German Catholicism concerning the issue of the church and nationalism.
  • 5.) Czech and Sudeten-German Catholicism in the post-Munich period; participation in the shaping of the authoritarian system of the Second Republic, the church’s position in the Sudetenland, connections with the Third Reich.
Literature
  • Pavel Marek (Ed.): Teorie a praxe politického katolicismu 1870-2007. Brno 2008.
  • FIALA, Petr, Jiří FORAL, Karel KONEČNÝ, Pavel MAREK, Michal PEHR and Miloš TRAPL. Český politický katolicismus 1848-2005. 1. vydání. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2008, 535 stran. ISBN 9788073251550. info
  • FIALA, Petr. Laboratoř sekularizace. Náboženství a politika v ne-náboženské společnosti: český případ. (The Laboratory of Secularization. Religion and policy in the non-religious society: the Czech case.). Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2007, 183 pp. Politika a náboženství. ISBN 978-80-7325-141-3. info
  • ŠEBEK, Jaroslav. Mezi křížem a národem : politické prostředí sudetoněmeckého katolicismu v meziválečném Československu. 1. vydání. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury (CDK), 2006, 334 stran. ISBN 8073250853. info
  • HANUŠ, Jiří. Malý slovník osobností českého katolicismu 20. století s antologií textů (A small Dictionary of Personalities of the Czech Catholicism of 20th Century). Brno: CDK, 2005, 308 pp. Dějiny a kultura. ISBN 80-7325-029-2. info
  • MALÍŘ, Jiří and Pavel a kol. MAREK. Politické strany. Vývoj politických stran a hnutí v českých zemích a Československu 1861-2004. sv. I-II. (Political Parteis. The Development of the Parties and Political Movements in the Bohemian Lands and Czechoslovakia, 1861-2004, 1-2.). 1st ed. Brno: Doplněk, 2005, 1826 pp. ISBN 80-7239-180-1. info
  • HANUŠ, Jiří. Tradice českého katolicismu ve 20. století (Traditions of Czech Catholicism in the 20th Century). 1st ed. Brno: CDK, 2005, 220 pp. Dějiny a kultura. ISBN 80-7325-036-5. info
  • MAREK, Pavel. Český katolicismus 1890-1914 :kapitoly z dějin českého katolického tábora na přelomu 19. a 20. století. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Gloria, 2003, 649 s. ISBN 80-86200-76-0. info
  • MALÍŘ, Jiří. Od spolků k moderním politickým stranám : vývoj politických stran na Moravě v letech 1848-1914. 1. vyd. Brno: Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, 1996, 373 pp. ISBN 80-210-1273-0. info
Assessment methods
lectures; coloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
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