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“a well-founded, chronologically organized overview of the movement’s emergence and development, keeping a steady eye on its political effects […] Ellis is able to show in detail how religiously inspired mindsets and arguments contributed to the political debates of the time […] a nuanced and thus more accurate account than previous scholarship” Hans-Christof Kraus, University of Passau, in German Historical Institute London Bulletin, XLII.2 pp, 25–32 ""With its focus on a Protestant, neo-Pietist revival movement known as the Awakened, Politics and piety describes a contentious relationship with the mainstream Protestant Church, discusses the complicated changes in Prussia’s religious environment and assesses the political implication of these changes from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 down to the start of the New Era in 1858 under Wilhelm [...] Ellis’s willingness to explore difficult issues – the role of popular religion, for example, or the unintended consequences of attempting to repair or renew old forms of society – provides an important and more nuanced discussion of the cultural response to political and social change in eastern Prussia during the transition from post- Napoleonic reform to the emergence of a modern bureaucratic authoritarian state. Ronald J. Ross, University of Wisconsin, in Journal of Ecclesastical History 70, pp 415-416

In this way, the study of history is increasingly moving out of the long shadow of the post-war era, and the simplistic confrontation between 'progressive' and 'reactionary' touted by GDR historiography has now been consigned to the past. an important output of Ellis's study is the recognition that the devout, Awakened, conservative forces were in fact able to modernize politically, and were open to many of the challenges of their time. Ellis sums up their use of modern communication and public relations techniques, their formation of political parties post-1848, their gradual acceptance of parliamentarianism and the constitutional state, and the beginnings of modern social policy with the well-founded argument 'that Prussia's religious revival, which intertwined with new forms of advocacy for political conservatism, actually helped to create a more modern society. a well-founded, chronologically organized overview of the movement's emergence and development, keeping a steady eye on its political effects. Hans-Christof Kraus, University of Passau, in German Historical Institute London Bulletin XLII.2 With its focus on a Protestant, neo-Pietist revival movement known as the Awakened, Politics and piety describes a contentious relationship with the mainstream Protestant Church, discusses the complicated changes in Prussia's religious environment and assesses the political implication of these changes from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 down to the start of the New Era in 1858 under Wilhelm [...] Ellis's willingness to explore difficult issues - the role of popular religion, for example, or the unintended consequences of attempting to repair or renew old forms of society - provides an important and more nuanced discussion of the cultural response to political and social change in eastern Prussia during the transition from post- Napoleonic reform to the emergence of a modern bureaucratic authoritarian state. Ronald J. Ross, University of Wisconsin, in Journal of Ecclesastical History 70, pp 415-416

a well-founded, chronologically organized overview of the movement's emergence and development, keeping a steady eye on its political effects [...] Ellis is able to show in detail how religiously inspired mindsets and arguments contributed to the political debates of the time [...] a nuanced and thus more accurate account than previous scholarship Hans-Christof Kraus, University of Passau, in German Historical Institute London Bulletin, XLII.2 pp, 25-32 With its focus on a Protestant, neo-Pietist revival movement known as the Awakened, Politics and piety describes a contentious relationship with the mainstream Protestant Church, discusses the complicated changes in Prussia's religious environment and assesses the political implication of these changes from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 down to the start of the New Era in 1858 under Wilhelm [...] Ellis's willingness to explore difficult issues - the role of popular religion, for example, or the unintended consequences of attempting to repair or renew old forms of society - provides an important and more nuanced discussion of the cultural response to political and social change in eastern Prussia during the transition from post- Napoleonic reform to the emergence of a modern bureaucratic authoritarian state. Ronald J. Ross, University of Wisconsin, in Journal of Ecclesastical History 70, pp 415-416

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David L. Ellis, Ph.D. (2002), University of Chicago, is Professor of History at Augustana College. He serves on the Board of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era and presents here a monograph on neo-Pietist revival in Prussia, 1816-1856.

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