Social question in Slovak Christian sociology in the first half of the twentieth century (Part 2)

Social Question in Slovak Christian Sociology in the First Half of the Twen tieth Century (Part 2) The article draws attention to the less known or unk nown ideas in Slovak history, which were, due to their relation to religion and the activities of Christian churches in the previous period, absent in social enquiry. It focuses on Christian socialism, that was well known and influential in Europe even before the middle of the 19(th) century, but sp read to Slovakia only after the publication of the Encyclia Rerum novarum i n 1891. The different social context - proletarisation of working class in agrarian Hungarian monarchy developed in a different course as in the indus trial countries of Europe - led Christian socialists to a specific apprecia tion of the encyclic as the document of the head of Catholic church, ignori ng its appeal to social problems of society. They defended the Encyclia In the polemics against social democratic ideas and solutions and even the fir st sociological texts in Christian periodicals were taken from sociologists with social democratic orientation simply because the Christian sociology had not been formed yet. The Slovak Christian socialist had also rather a s mall influence, which partly increased after the publication of Encyclia Qu adragesimo anno in 1931.