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1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and index. |
Contents |
Dissidence and confession, 1845 to 1847 -- Free religious worldview : from Christian rationalism to naturalistic monism -- The sociology of dissent : free religion and popular science -- Politics and free religion in the 1860s and 1870s -- Secularism in the Berlin Kulturkampf, 1869-1880 -- From worldview to ethics : secularism and the "Jewish question," 1878-1892 -- Secularism in Wilhelmine Germany. |
Summary |
"Negotiating the boundaries of the secular and of the religious is a core aspect of modern experience. In mid-nineteenth-century Germany, secularism emerged to oppose church establishment, conservative orthodoxy, and national division between Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. Yet, as historian Todd H. Weir argues in this provocative book, early secularism was not the opposite of religion. It developed in the rationalist dissent of Free Religion and, even as secularism took more atheistic forms in Freethought and Monism, it was subject to the forces of the confessional system it sought to dismantle. Similar to its religious competitors, it elaborated a clear worldview, sustained social milieus, and was integrated into the political system. Secularism was, in many ways, Germany's fourth confession. While challenging assumptions about the causes and course of the Kulturkampf and modern antisemitism, this study casts new light on the history of popular science, radical politics, and social reform"--Provided by publisher. |
Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
Note |
All rights reserved. |
Subject |
Germany -- Religion -- 19th century.
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Secularism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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Added Title |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
ISBN |
9781107041561 (alk. paper) |
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1107041562 (alk. paper) |
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9781107614222 (paperback) |
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1107614228 (paperback) |
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1139699121 (electronic bk.) |
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9781139699129 (electronic bk.) |
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1139865269 (electronic bk.) |
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9781139865265 (electronic bk.) |
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1139870998 (electronic bk.) |
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9781139870993 (electronic bk.) |
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9781107300378 ebook |
Standard No. |
heb40032 hdl |
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