A szerzetesség és a töröktől való visszafoglalást követő „második konfesszionalizáció” Baranya megyében
The Religious Orders and the “Second Confessionalisation” in Baranya County after the Expulsion of the Ottomans

Summary/Abstract: On the conceptual basis of the confessionalisation paradigm of Wolfgang Reinhard and Schilling, the term “second confessionalisation” can be applied for the process of denominational changes in specific local societies due to the newly drawn political borders. The different elements of this process can be placed on various scales between individual denominations, as well as the “spiritual” and “physical” components of power. This study attempts to define such measures on an example in specific time and space: the integration of Baranya county in the Christian state under Habsburg rulership, starting at the end of the 17th century. My goal was not a comprehensive overview of the data related to the history of Catholicism in the county after the expulsion of the Ottomans, but rather to create an interpretative framework which could be applied for the rather complex phenomenon of the second period of the confessionalisation process, that in Hungary lasted till the end of the 18th century, thus quite late in contrast to Western Europe. As a result, four distinct sources, methods and creative powers could be specified (apart from some provisional and auxiliary forms): 1, a fully “physical” method, depending heavily on secular power (that is, new population on account of settlement policies); 2, conversion of people from other denominations and the Catholic education of new generations; 3, the conversion-in-theological-sense of those communities, which are Catholics in the administrative sense, but should actually be regarded as subconfessional; and 4, the further end of the scale, the mostly “spiritual” method, influenced mainly by the local religious orders

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