Cultural Studies paper by Ács, Marianna
The Calvinist Women Education in Baranya County between the Two World Wars (Accepted)
Type of Abstract (select):Abstract (max. 250 words):
The Calvinist community in Baranya was formed in the sixteenth century, during the Ottoman occupation of the area and has survived to today. Although Pécs is the centre of a Catholic Bishopery, it is also an important Calvinist center (8100 belivers), which includes an elementary and high school, as well as two churches. The number of the Calvinist today in Baranya is about twenty five thousand believers. The presentation gives an overview on ideas and methods, femal education in the high school for female pupils of the Felsőbaranyai Református Egyházmegye. This paper is part of a project titled „Protestant women’s education in the Horthy era”. The aim of this paper is presenting the importance of female education in the education policy of the Dunamelléki Református Egyházkerület until 1948. The main finding of the study is that the schools established for women mirror the Christian conservative approach, represented by the leaders's view of the church regarding the social roles of women. The research concentrates on the written primal sources of the archive of the Felsőbaranyai Református Egyházmegye.
Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Marianna Ács PhD is an assistant professor of the University of Pécs (UP), Faculty of Humanities. She was born in Székesfehérvár (Hungary). Studied at the UP, Hungarian and Italian Language and Literature. She got PhD degree at the same university in the Education and Society Doctorate School in 2016. Her PhD thesis was about the history of religious women education concerning a highschool was run in Siklós and Pécs between 1916-1948.