Christianity in Czechia-questions
Chapter 1: The roots of the situation of Christianity in the Czech lands at the beginning of the 19th century
Reading questions:
1. How did Emperor Joseph II’s 1781 Patent of Toleration influence the denominational structure in Bohemia?
2. How did the religious freedom of tolerated non-Catholics in Bohemia develop during Bach’s neo-absolutism and after it?
3. What was the 1855 Concordat between the Danubian Monarchy and Rome and how did their relations develop after its end?
Chapter 2: Nationalism as part of the history of 19th century Christianity in the Czech lands
Reading questions:
1. What does the term ‘nation’ mean?
2. How did the political significance of the nation develop in the 18th century?
3. How did cultural and political nationalism develop in the Czech lands?
Chapter 3: Nationalism and the Czech and German forms of Christianity
Reading questions:
1. What was the Czechs’ social and political position in the Hapsburg Empire?
2. What form did Czech and German Christianity have in 19th century Czech lands?
3. Was 1848 a breaking point for the coexistence of Czechs and Germans in the Czech lands?
Chapter 4: Jan Hus and the Hussite movement in the Czech national consciousness during the 19th century
Reading questions:
1. How did Hus influence the Czech national consciousness in the 18th century?
2. How did Hus influence the Czech national consciousness in the 19th century?
3. How did Jan Žižka influence the Czech national consciousness in the 19th century?
Chapter 5: The two motives of the development of Czech national identity at the end of the 19th century
Reading questions:
1. What traces did French culture leave in Bohemia in the late 19th century?
2. How was the development of the Czech national identity in the late 19th century influenced by the idea of university extensions?
3. Did German universities in the Czech lands engage in university extensions in the late 19th century?
Chapter 6: The Roman Catholic Church
Reading questions:
1. What form did the national interaction and conflicts between Czechs and Germans in Roman Catholic Christianity in the Czech lands take?
2. What are the traditions of Czech history?
3. Was there any connection between the formalization of faith and the liberal modernizing national perspective of Czech Christianity?
Chapter 7: The end of the 19th century and Catholic modernism
Reading questions:
1. How did Freethought contribute to the separation of Czech society and the traditional forms of Christianity?
2. Do you know the roots of Catholic modernism in the 19th century?
3. What were the main principles and goals of Catholic modernism?
Chapter 8: Germans in the Roman Catholic Church in the Czech lands
Reading questions:
1. What do you know about the local patriotism of the Enlightenment and the nationalist polarization of the clergymen and laymen of the Roman Catholic Church in the Czech lands?
2. How did the 1882 division of the university in Prague into Czech and German parts impact the Roman Catholic Church?
3. What can you say about the growth of the Old Catholic Church in Northern Bohemia, centred around Varnsdorf?
Chapter 9: Lutherans and Reformists
Reading questions:
1. What can you say about Czech and German Lutherans in the Czech lands in the 19th century?
2. What can you say about Czech and German Reformists in the Czech lands in the 19th century?
3. What were the manifestations of nationalism in Czech Evangelical churches in the 19th century?