Religious institutes and catholic culture in 19th- and 20th-century Europe

A broad perspective on the role of religious institutes in social and cultural practices.

This volume examines the cultural contribution of religious institutes, men

and women religious, and their role in the constitution of Catholic communities

of communication in different European countries. The articles focus

on social and cultural history by comparing both discourses and cultural

and social practices, as well as examining international networks and cultural

transference. How did religious institutes function as cultural elites

in the production and mediation of knowledge, ideologies, cultural codes,

and practices? What kind of discursive and operational strategies did they

use to help construct and propagate social Catholicism, ultramontanism,

and confessionalism, and to establish and promote the Catholic communication

system? What were the central mechanisms in the production

of knowledge and how were they incorporated within identity politics?

The volume also takes a broad perspective on the role of religious institutes

in the production and propagation of religious, cultural, and social

practices, and in the socialisation of the Catholic population.