Protestant pastors, teachers, lecturers

Both the pastoral and teaching professions are among the earliest to professionalise. An exciting process is the gradual drift away from the church and away from the pastoral role of teachers and tutors, who were originally church ministers, and their increasing influence on everyday life, and the differentiation between teachers and tutors in higher education and in smaller schools. In addition to the professionalisation of teachers, the training of pastors and their behaviour in the quasi-labour market logic within a secularising society, the decisive factors influencing their career stages, the institutional frameworks determining their movement and behaviour in the world of work are also elements of this issue that are well worth exploring, especially on the Protestant side. While Hungary had a relatively populous Protestant community with an extensive network of congregations, the professionalisation processes of pastors and teachers started under very specific circumstances. For this reason, it is not sufficient to simply extend the time boundaries for the relevant typical research on professionalisation: rather, specific methods and sometimes significant compromises are required. The paper will take stock of the main elements of this atypical process and will seek to answer the question of how this might affect the professionalisation studies of the professions in Hungary.

János Ugrai: Protestáns lelkészek, tanárok, tanítók. A különválás strukturális feltételeinek körvonalazódása a 19. század első felében [Protestant pastors, teachers, lecturers.The structural conditions for separation in the first half of the 19th century]. AETAS, 37. 1. 2022. 5-20.