Reference Type: Book Section
Author: Nagy, Kornél
Year: 2011
Title: The Catholicization of Transylvanian Armenians (1685-1715). Integrative or Disintegrative Model?
Translated Title: [Uniunea bisericească la armenii ardeleni (1685-1715). Integrare sau model de dezintegrare în Ardealul timpuriu?]
Editor: Barszczewska, Agnieszka - Peti, Lehel
Book Title: The Catholicization of Transylvanian Armenians (1685-1715). Integrative or Disintegrative Model?
City: Cluj-Napoca
Publisher: ISPMN (The Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities)
Kriterion
Pages: 33-56
Language: English
Keywords: Armenian minority, history, religion, Catholic Church, politics, modernization, diplomacy, diaspora, elites, integration, education, social groups, biographies
Abstract: (En) The main aim of this study is to analyse the Catholicization of Transylvania and its direct consequences. The turn of the 17th and 18th centuries is regarded as one of the most exciting and at the same time most paradoxical periods in the history of Hungary and Transylvania. The integration of the multi-religious Transylvanian Principality into the Habsburg Empire after 150 years of relative independence and Rákóczi's Independence War (1703-1711) meant serious challenges to the Habsburg Court in Vienna. This period brought also great challenges, possibilities and missions for the Roman Catholic Church, as well as serious duties also to the Hungarian Catholic Church, where the Eastern and Northern regions of the Hungarian Kingdom had already been experiencing the process called the Counter-Reformation. The Roman Catholic bishops, who were highly supported by missionaries delegated from Rome in order to re-organise the Catholic religious life, reappeared at the seats of the dioceses that had previously been abandoned due to the Ottoman occupation.
At the same time, strongly supported by the Holy See, the Hungarian Roman Catholic Church's efforts to fulfill its policy coincided with the interests of Vienna. From the perspective of Catholic Habsburgs, these efforts were inspired not only by religious, but by economic, population and social reasons to which, in turn, the Roman Catholic faith ensured adequate ideological background. According to the Habsburg Court's opinion, a religiously homogeneous society increased efficiency in the slate management: a religiously more homogeneous population or society was easier to manage, and the people were more disciplined, at least as far as paying taxes to the central treasury was concerned. That is why it was important to have a homogeneous population consisting of predominately Catholic subjects.

(Ro) Uniunea religioasă la armenii ardeleni include nenumărate întrebări care cer răspuns, şi la care cercetările anterioare nu au reuşit să ofere un răspuns corespunzător. Câteva probleme pe care autorul le-a cercetat: care a fost rolul oferit armenilor în politica demografică şi de colonizare pe care Curtea Vieneză le-a oferit după victoria asupra turcilor? Au aplicat autorităţile
vieneze la răscrucea dintre secolele 17-18, în relaţie cu armenii, diferitele planuri de colonizare şi concepte religioase sau nu? Uniunea armenilor ardeleni este comparabilă cu încercările de catolicizare a rutenilor din zona carpatică, a sârbilor din sud sau activitatea de atragere la catolicism a românilor ardeleni? Se pot compara aceste uniuni ori se pot interpreta, ca acţiuni venite din afara zonei de activitate a Bisericii Catolice maghiare? Uniunea bisericească se poate interpreta ca un model de integrare sau de dezintegrare în Ardeal?
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