The reform of Catholic festival culture in eighteenth-century Austria: A clash of mentalities
Eighteenth-century Austria inherited a rich festival culture from the Baroque Catholicism of the Counter-Reformation. Even before the Josephinian Enlightenment of the 1780s, however, both secular and ecclesiastical authorities tried to reduce the number of processions, pilgrimages and feast-days, on...
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| description | Eighteenth-century Austria inherited a rich festival culture from the Baroque Catholicism of the Counter-Reformation. Even before the Josephinian Enlightenment of the 1780s, however, both secular and ecclesiastical authorities tried to reduce the number of processions, pilgrimages and feast-days, on the grounds that they distracted people from work, encouraged disorder and vice, and were incompatible with the inward, rationally based devotion that was increasingly considered exemplary. The reforms pursued under Joseph II pitted two mentalities, two sets of values, against each other, and were part of the long-term process known as modernization. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:aa66719d-5cf2-45df-96cd-466cdf96f6352022-03-27T03:14:46ZThe reform of Catholic festival culture in eighteenth-century Austria: A clash of mentalitiesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:aa66719d-5cf2-45df-96cd-466cdf96f635EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordModern Humanities Research Association2018Robertson, REighteenth-century Austria inherited a rich festival culture from the Baroque Catholicism of the Counter-Reformation. Even before the Josephinian Enlightenment of the 1780s, however, both secular and ecclesiastical authorities tried to reduce the number of processions, pilgrimages and feast-days, on the grounds that they distracted people from work, encouraged disorder and vice, and were incompatible with the inward, rationally based devotion that was increasingly considered exemplary. The reforms pursued under Joseph II pitted two mentalities, two sets of values, against each other, and were part of the long-term process known as modernization. |
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