‘Michael Carter-Sinclair’s meticulously researched and very readable monograph is a political history of the Christian Social Party (CSP) and its relationship with the Church… the author immediately challenges received wisdom about the perceived persecution of the Church and its members by a triumphalist liberal elite... [and shows that] long before the political crisis of 1927, Ignaz Seipel, the ‘prelate without mercy’, was preaching the virtues of a superior “true democracy”, that rejected both political pluralism and cultural inclusivity.’
Timothy Kirk, English Historical Review

‘This is a fine book…. The author has used church documents to prove how antisemitic stereotypes were used systematically by the clergy to keep the old anti-Jewish hatred alive…. The basic arguments Carter-Sinclair presents here are covered in studies by John Boyer, Bruce Pauley, and Peter Pulzer…. However, the book uses new evidence, including formerly overlooked materials like parish newsletters, to demonstrate how central antisemitism was to the thinking and feeling of rank-and-file members of Austrian Catholicism.’
Anton Pelinka, Antisemitism Studies

Introduction
1 Before the rise of the antisemites
2 Antisemites begin to organise, 1873–89
3 To the brink of power, 1889–95
4 A Christian, socially engaged movement? 1896–1914
5 A German movement? 1896–1914
6 War and the end of empire, 1914–18
7 An unloved republic? 1919–26
8 The right asserts itself, 1927–33
9 Building a Christian and German Austria? 1934–8
10 An end to Austria?
11 Principal conclusions and further questions
Index