Dr. Eveline G. Bouwers

Member of the academic staff, Department of History – on parental leave
Room: 03-10, Diether-von-Isenburg-Str. 9-11, 55116 MainzPhone: +49 6131 39 39345
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Battles over Belief: Religion and Violence in Catholic Europe, 1848–1914
The Emmy Noether research group undertakes the first systematic analysis of the use of protest and violence in conflicts pertaining to religious culture and Church power in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Europe. It studies the motives and legitimation strategies for the use of crowd action and simultaneously probes opportunities to overcome physical conflict and the development of alternative ways to overcome conflict.
Blasphemy in Europe from 1500
Blasphemy, heresy and freedom of expression: on the limits of the sayable and the visible in modern Europe. The project led by Eveline G. Bouwers as part of the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group "Faith Struggles: Religion and Violence in Catholic Europe (1848-1914)" focuses on the history of blasphemy in Europe since 1500.
Catholic Crowd Action: the Violent Protest over Public Religion in Europe, 1848-1914
The idea of the violent Catholic: a liberal fantasy or a historical reality after all? Using micro-historically processed case studies from Belgium, Germany and France, the project examines how Catholic believers, who were largely excluded from political decision-making processes, dealt with conflicts over the boundaries of religious-ecclesiastical space in their everyday lives.