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An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including historical-political disclosure of the Weimar Republic, trauma of war and the Weimar Imperial Constitution (WRV).

With a view to the Europe-wide phase of tension and crisis affecting Christian churches in general and the Catholic Church in particular, the article reflects on the notion and content of 'Catholicism.' These reflections take two main directions. First, they argue for a differentiated understanding of the notion of Catholicism, its many variations, and the historical phenomena that it is applied to in their own specific historical contexts. Second, they aim to reformulate the term 'Catholicism' in order to do justice both to the historical variety and the recent processes of change, while also making it possible to describe and investigate the lasting importance - both for the Church and society at large - of a Catholicism that is worldly and internally pluralistic. What is critical is to comprehend analytically the difference between the institutionalized Church and Catholicism in a pluralistic sense (this is especially true for liberal societies). In this way, the Church can be saved from an overextension of its religious or clerical authority, let alone the temptations of fundamentalism and anti-modernism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various articles within the issue on topics including the section titled "History" which focuses on the theme "War and Peace," of the General Assembly, and the European-origin military conflicts.

The article introduces the topics of the 2017 issue of the history periodical "Historisches Jahrbuch" including history of the Catholic church in Hildesheim, Germany, Reformation in religious history, and the impact of medieval church renewals on friar orders.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including history of religious change, sociological research of Catholicism and individualization in 20th century.

The article describes the history of Jews in Europe from the end of the Middle Ages until the aftermath of the Second World War as a sequence of migrational processes. It thereby demonstrates how the migration paradigm can contribute to a comprehensive understanding of European Jewish history during the given period by better explaining the various types of settlement, as well as other central phenomena of Jewish existence, such as inclusion/exclusion, assimilation/acculturation, and anti-Semitism. The article tries to assess the significance of the "religious factor" within the complex interdependencies between so-called "push" and "pull" factors that determined the individual migrations. In most cases, religious motives played only a minor role, while economic factors tended to dominate, particularly in regard to the functions Jews, as members of a minority, were permitted to carry out in the context of non-Jewish majority societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the general political relevance of migration in the present migratory history has become an established historical sub-discipline. For the section's conference two results of recent migratory history were decisive: (1) It is not justified to make a distinction between a modernity open to mobility and a throughout immobile premodernity. Mobility and migration may be regarded rather as phenomena beyond temporal or spatial limits. (2) Furthermore religion always played a crucial role in migration processes, in many forms, not only in form of religious persecution. These observations determined the selection of contributions, which partly focus on long-term developments (articles by Heinz-Dieter Heimann, Thomas Brechenmacher und Ulrich Niggemann), partly on case studies (articles by Matthias Stickler and Christoph Kösters). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the historical, political, and ideological context of three papal encyclicals issued by Pope Pius XI in March 1937, namely "Mit brennender Sorge," "Divini Redemptoris," and Firmissimam Constantiam. The author suggests that the three documents should be interpreted as a unified response of the Catholic Church to totalitarianism and revolutionary politics, especially to National Socialism in Germany, Communism in the Soviet Union, and the revolution and civil war in Mexico. The relationship of the Church to politics and the state is considered, as are the role of Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, the later Pope Pius XII, in drafting the encyclical concerning National Socialism and Pius XI's attitudes to social and economic materialism.

The article discusses the development of religious, political, and social reforms in 19th century Europe. Papal rule from this time period is described as more Eastern than European, given the philosophical and cultural movements of the 19th century in the Western hemisphere. Quotations are included from 19th century intellectual figures, such as German cultural historian and diplomat Alfred von Reumont, Italian political critic and statesman Luigi-Carlo Farini, and French anti-Roman Catholic writer Edmont About.

An introduction to this issue of the journal is presented and used by the editors to reaffirm the mission of the journal, which includes publishing articles on political history, the history of Christianity, and interdisciplinary studies between history and theology.