CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Jobbágy, András |
|---|---|
| Title | Religious Policy and Dissent in Socialist Hungary, 1974-1989. The Case of the Bokor-movement |
| Summary | The thesis investigates religious policy, church-state relationships and dissent in late Kádárist Hungary. Firstly, by pointing out the interconnectedness between the ideology of the Catholic grass-root Bokor-movement and the established religious political context of the 1970s and 1980s, the thesis argues that the Bokor can be considered as a religiously expressed form of political dissent. Secondly, the thesis analyzes the perspective of the party-state regarding the Bokor-movement, and argues that the applied mechanisms of repression served the political cause of keeping the unity of the Catholic Church intact under the authority of the Hungarian episcopacy. The major consideration behind this state policy was to maintain the established status quo in church-state relationships, which had been consolidated in the course of 1970s. The thesis bases its arguments on the available archival material of such state organs of Kádárist Hungary as the Subdivision III/III and the State Office of Church Affairs. Since the case of the Bokor-movement reveals that the communist party-state no longer regarded the Catholic Church as its political enemy in the examined period, the author argues for a new approach, which synthetizes the theoretical frameworks of secularization/ modernity/Commu nism and religion with the findings of empirical research in order to reach a more profound and comprehensive understanding on religious policy and church-state relationships in late Kádárist Hungary. |
| Supervisor | Al-Bagdadi, Nadia |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/jobbagy_andras.pdf |
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