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Catholicism and the Great War : religion and everyday life in Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1922 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Houlihan, Patrick J., 1980-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Series:Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; 42.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Germany > History > 20th century.
Catholic Church > Austria > History > 20th century.
Catholic Church > Hungary > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Catholicism on the eve of the Great War in Germany and Austria-Hungary
  • Theology and catastrophe
  • The limits of religious authority: military chaplaincy and the bounds of clericalism
  • Faith in the trenches: Catholic battlefield piety during the Great War
  • The unquiet homefront
  • A voice in the wilderness: the papacy
  • Memory, mourning, and the Catholic way of war.