Author : Helmut Walser Smith
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2001-10
Category : History
ISBN :
In the course of the 19th century, the boundaries that divided Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany were redrawn. Contrary to popular belief, these groups co-existed in common space, and interacted in complex ways. This book lays the foundation for a new kind of religious history.
Author : Michael Printy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 2009-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521478391
The first account of the German Catholic Enlightenment, this book explores the ways in which 18th-century Germans reconceived the relationship between religion, society, and the state.
Author : Sheridan Gilley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521814560
This is the first scholarly treatment of nineteenth-century Christianity to discuss the subject in a global context. Part I analyses the responses of Catholic and Protestant Christianity to the intellectual and social challenges presented by European modernity. It gives attention to the explosion of new voluntary forms of Christianity and the expanding role of women in religious life. Part II surveys the diverse and complex relationships between the churches and nationalism, resulting in fundamental changes to the connections between church and state. Part III examines the varied fortunes of Christianity as it expanded its historic bases in Asia and Africa, established itself for the first time in Australasia, and responded to the challenges and opportunities of the European colonial era. Each chapter has a full bibliography providing guidance on further reading.
Author : Todd H. Weir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1107041562
This book explores the culture, politics, and ideas of the nineteenth-century German secularist movements of Free Religion, Freethought, Ethical Culture, and Monism. In it, Todd H. Weir argues that although secularists challenged church establishment and conservative orthodoxy, they were subjected to the forces of religious competition.
Author : Helmut Walser Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0199237395
This is the first comprehensive, multi-author survey of German history that features cutting-edge syntheses of major topics by an international team of leading scholars. Emphasizing demographic, economic, and political history, this Handbook places German history in a denser transnational context than any other general history of Germany. It underscores the centrality of war to the unfolding of German history, and shows how it dramatically affected the development of German nationalism and the structure of German politics. It also reaches out to scholars and students beyond the field of history with detailed and cutting-edge chapters on religious history and on literary history, as well as to contemporary observers, with reflections on Germany and the European Union, and on 'multi-cultural Germany.' Covering the period from around 1760 to the present, this Handbook represents a remarkable achievement of synthesis based on current scholarship. It constitutes the starting point for anyone trying to understand the complexities of German history as well as the state of scholarly reflection on Germany's dramatic, often destructive, integration into the community of modern nations. As it brings this story to the present, it also places the current post-unification Federal Republic of Germany into a multifaceted historical context. It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and anyone interested in modern Germany.
Author : Rebekka Habermas
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 25,58 MB
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1789201527
With its rapid industrialization, modernization, and gradual democratization, Imperial Germany has typically been understood in secular terms. However, religion and religious actors actually played crucial roles in the history of the Kaiserreich, a fact that becomes particularly evident when viewed through a transnational lens. In this volume, leading scholars of sociology, religious studies, and history study the interplay of secular and religious worldviews beyond the simple interrelation of practices and ideas. By exploring secular perspectives, belief systems, and rituals in a transnational context, they provide new ways of understanding how the borders between Imperial Germany’s secular and religious spheres were continually made and remade.
Author : Carina L. Johnson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1785335413
Modern religious identities are rooted in collective memories that are constantly made and remade across generations. How do these mutations of memory distort our picture of historical change and the ways that historical actors perceive it? Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in Germany through case studies of remembering and forgetting—instances in which patterns and practices of religious plurality were excised from historical memory. By tracing their ramifications through the centuries, Archeologies of Confession carefully reconstructs the often surprising histories of plurality that have otherwise been lost or obscured.
Author : Larry Eugene Jones
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1782383530
Significant recent research on the German Right between 1918 and 1933 calls into question received narratives of Weimar political history. The German Right in the Weimar Republic examines the role that the German Right played in the destabilization and overthrow of the Weimar Republic, with particular emphasis on the political and organizational history of Rightist groups as well as on the many permutations of right-wing ideology during the period. In particular, antisemitism and the so-called “Jewish Question” played a prominent role in the self-definition and politics of the right-wing groups and ideologies explored by the contributors to this volume.
Author : Rebecca Ayako Bennette
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0674064801
Historians have long believed that Catholics were late and ambivalent supporters of the German nation. Rebecca Ayako Bennette’s bold new interpretation demonstrates definitively that from the beginning in 1871, when Wilhelm I was proclaimed Kaiser of a unified Germany, Catholics were actively promoting a German national identity for the new Reich.
Author : Christof Mauch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521197813
The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century presents a wide ranging comparison of American and German societies during the late 19th and 20th centuries. The two countries - the world's leading "rising powers" of the time - were both more similar and more different than is widely understood. Above all, their dual encounter with modernity brings out the richness of both societies as they faced unprecedented internal and external challenges, sometimes in isolation, but more often in combination or in parallel with one another.
