Sylabus
Christianity and modernity, the papacy. Theology and the revolt against the Enlightenment.
The growth of voluntary religion. Catholic revivalism in worship and devotion.
Catholic Christianity in France from the Restoration to the separation of church and state, 1815-1905. Italy: the church and the Risorgimento.
Catholicism, Ireland and the Irish diaspora. Catholic nationalism in Greater Hungary and Poland.
Christianity and the creation of Germany. Anglicanism, Presbyterianism and the religious identities of the United Kingdom.
Protestant dominance and confessional politics: Switzerland and the Netherlands. Expansion christianity I.
Expansion christianity II. Christianity and First World War.
Modernism and Czechoslovak Church.
Anotace
The course covers the history of the western Europe from the late eighteenth century through to 1937 – to the growth of fascism. Attention will be given to social, cultural and political history, and religion and the way these elements have interacted.