Methodological approaches to the ecclesiastical social history of forced collectivization : conceptual frameworks

Sulák Péter Sándor: Methodological approaches to the ecclesiastical social history of forced collectivization : conceptual frameworks. In: Belvedere Meridionale, (36) 4. pp. 100-112. (2024)

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The „socialist restructuring” of agriculture is not just an economic history of the second half of the 20th century. It is also of social historical importance because of its impact on the structure of land tenure, the nature of farming, the traditional order of work and holidays for peasant society, and the impact on local communities of agrarian character in former farming towns, from small villages to local communities of the former field towns, including interpersonal relations between Christian parishes of different denominations. The research problem concerns a relatively under-researched aspect of the intersection of 20th century Hungarian church and social history, and is best understood in the context of the Sovietisation of rural life. The concept of totalitarianism, which ignored economic and social conditions, included the dismantling of the churches and their locally secondary and, after the 1945 land distribution, primary source of income and „spiritual” hinterland, the individual farming and, in some cases, small-scale peasant farmers, which took place in several waves and was finally completed throughout Eastern Europe by 1961–62. This methodological paper takes stock of the areas and research findings of the social history of the church as studied in the international and national literature, and the sectoral approaches that can be adapted to the study of the impact of the forced collectivisation of agriculture on the economic strength and faith life of local parishes. The main issues are: changes in the ecclesiastical property structure and the economic power of parishes, the formal and informal relations of local parishes with local representatives of the regime, the pastoral possibilities within a changed social context and the secularisation tendencies generated by collectivisation. The study also looks at everyday practices of resilience, or cultural resistance, and socialisation – the promotion of the idea of large-scale farming in church circles. As the farming community constituted the majority of the membership of parishes, it was in this social milieu, including local parish priests and ministers, that the main trends of land and secularisation were concentrated, which state socialism sought to resolve in a more radical way than ever before in the „long 1950s”. In this sense, parishes could be seen as the „local arena of rural class struggle” in that period.

Mű típusa: Cikk, tanulmány, mű
Rovatcím: Műhelytanulmányok a Kárpát-medencei Fiatal Magyar Történészek Táborából
Befoglaló folyóirat/kiadvány címe: Belvedere Meridionale
Dátum: 2024
Kötet: 36
Szám: 4
ISSN: 2064-5929
Oldalak: pp. 100-112
Nyelv: angol
Kiadó: Belvedere Meridionale
Kiadás helye: Szeged
Befoglaló mű URL: https://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/87323/
DOI: 10.14232/belv.2024.4.7
Kulcsszavak: Egyháztörténet - katolikus - Magyarország - 20. sz., Társadalomtörténet - Magyarország - 20. sz., Kollektivizálás - szocialista országok, Agrárpolitika - Magyarország - 20. sz., Államosítás - Magyarország - 20. sz.
Megjegyzések: Bibliogr.: p. 109-112. és a lábjegyzetekben ; összefoglalás angol nyelven
Szakterület: 06. Bölcsészettudományok
06. Bölcsészettudományok > 06.01. Történettudomány és régészet
Feltöltés dátuma: 2025. máj. 07. 09:18
Utolsó módosítás: 2025. máj. 07. 09:18
URI: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/87330
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