The unusual suspects of social change : the sodalities of the Blessed Virgin Mary in late Austrian Galicia
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, 2023, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 49-62
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GRUZIEL, Dominika, The unusual suspects of social change : the sodalities of the Blessed Virgin Mary in late Austrian Galicia, Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, 2023, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 49-62 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76725
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The article joins the research on early twentieth century Catholicism’s transformation to meet challenges of rapidly alternating socio-economic conditions, respond to its ideological competitors, and, finally, rebuff the seculars’ conviction that modernity would see little use for religiously informed forms of collective belonging and religion in general. It builds on the understanding of modernity as a context-contingent and ambiguous project that historical actors, here Roman Catholics male religious and female laity in Habsburg Galicia, filled in with their specific visions, aspirations, and solutions. Specifically, by zooming in on the associative culture of the Sodalities of the Blessed Virgin Mary, this article discusses how forging a local version of Catholic modernity included the deployment of women’s activist aspirations and, further, how this deployment led to the appearance of an intriguing model of pious womanhood with an inbuilt obligation of acting outside of domicile as a prerequisite for its fulfilment.
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Published online: 05 December 2023