On October 22-25, 2012 a joint conference entitled Religion im politischen und sozialen Kontext was organized in Zwettl, Lower Austria by Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung and Vienna Institute of Hungarian History. Similarly to the first conference in 2011 about the Early Modern Age this year the lectures were given by PhD students and young historians but this time Czech and Slovak colleagues also participated at the event along with Austrian and Hungarian researchers. Béla Mihalik, junior research fellow of our institute, gave a lecture entitled Die Rekatholisierung der städtischen Räume in Kaschau, Erlau und Frauenbach, 1670 bis 1699.