Een Pastoor En Zijn Onderneming: Bouw En Opbouw Van De Kerk En Parochie Van St. Jozef Te Arnhem, 1920-1960: A pastor and his enterprise: building and construction in the parish of St. Jozef in Arnhem, 1920-60.
The parish of St. Jozef is situated in a district on the outskirts of Arnhem, a town in the east of the Netherlands. In the 1920's, the major part of this district was built over with working-class houses commissioned by several housing corporations with different ideological backgrounds: liber...
| Published in: | Trajecta |
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam University Press
1993
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Trajecta
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| Further subjects: | B
Buildings
B St. Jozef's parish) B Catholics B Clergy B Construction industry B Netherlands (Arnhem |
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| Summary: | The parish of St. Jozef is situated in a district on the outskirts of Arnhem, a town in the east of the Netherlands. In the 1920's, the major part of this district was built over with working-class houses commissioned by several housing corporations with different ideological backgrounds: liberal, social democratic, Protestant, and Catholic. Each corporation built houses for its own supporters, and the area became a kind of testing ground for the compartmentalization that is a characteristic feature of the Netherlands. Working in a relatively favorable climate - the Catholics had gained strong positions, locally as well as nationally, and felt sure of their rights - the first priest of the parish of St. Jozef gave expression to the euphoric mood that prevailed in the Catholic Netherlands in his own special way. Acting like a resourceful businessman and entrepreneur he put all of his energy into creating a large number of expensive buildings and getting the entire Catholic community of the Netherlands to pay for them. From an organizational point of view, however, he went his own way, in spite of the existence of an elaborate network of local and diocesan Catholic organizations. Neither the many organizations nor the monumental buildings were capable of generating a deeper commitment to the church. What happened in the parish of St. Jozef shows that in the heyday of Dutch Catholicism an enterprising priest had ample scope and opportunity to work at realizing his dream of an elaborate material infrastructure for his parish, which he regarded as his own, exclusively Catholic, domain. This preoccupation with ostentation and personal prestige was at the expense of actual pastoral care, a shortcoming that manifested itself prominently in the 1950's. |
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| ISSN: | 0778-8304 |
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