Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction viii
5. Uniate Martyr Josaphat and His Role as a Confessionalizing, Integrating, and Nationalizing Influence 1
6. Conversion and Culture in Russia’s Western Borderlands, 1800–55 29
7. Religion in the Rhetoric of the 1863–64 Uprising 50
8. Orthodox Christianity Emerging as an Ethical Principle in School Education in the 1860–70s 68
9. The Roman Catholic Clergy and the Notion of Lithuanian National Identity 84
10. The Nobility in the Lithuanian National Project in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: The Approach of the Catholic Clergy 97
11. Praising Christ, Serving the Nation: The Ideology of the Catholic Newspaper Biełarus (1913–15) 118
12. Defining the Public Sphere through Cultural Boundaries: Creating a “Czech” National Society in Nineteenth-Century Bohemia 130
13. “Building” Nationalism: St. Elisabeth’s Church in Lemberg 150
14. Local Governance and Religion in the Kingdom of Poland, 1905–14: Multireligious Relief Actions for Unemployed Workers in Łódź 161
15. Max Weber and Eastern Europe: The Religious Background to Modern Nationalism 181
16. Index 194