Date of Award

2018

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Michalson, Gordon

Area of Concentration

Religion

Abstract

This thesis concerns the complex relationship between religion and nationality within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. I argue three claims. Firstly, my most broad argument is in agreement with the most recent “revisionist” historiography on the Austro-Hungarian Empire, rejecting the teleological narrative of its supposed decadence and “inevitable” destruction as posited by the “Cold War era” or “anglophone” scholarship. Secondly, I posit that the Catholic conservatives within the Empire had a different view of nationalism, one that affirmed individual nationalities without denigrating the Empire as a whole. Thirdly, that this Conservative nationalism, or “Catholic nationalism” as I call it was based off of Catholic Social teaching and reinforced by the Churches influence in the state. To make these claims I make use of both primary and secondary sources.

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