Overview

In the course of the nineteenth century, the boundaries that divided Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany were redrawn, challenged, rendered porous and built anew. This book addresses this redrawing. It considers the relations of three religious groups-Protestants, Catholics, and Jews-and asks how, by dint of their interaction, they affected one another.Previously, historians have written about these communities as if they lived in isolation. Yet these groups coexisted in common space, and interacted in complex ways. This is the first book that brings these separate stories together and lays the foundation for a new kind of religious history that foregrounds both cooperation and conflict across the religious divides. The authors analyze the influences that shaped religious coexistence and they place the valences of co-operation and conflict in deep social and cultural contexts. The result is a significantly altered understanding of the emergence of modern religious communities as well as new insights into the origins of the German tragedy, which involved the breakdown of religious coexistence.

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Author:   Helmut Walser Smith
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.448kg
ISBN:  

9781859735657

ISBN 10:   1859735657
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 October 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION The Fate of Nathan. Helmut Walser Smith (Vanderbilt University) and Chris Clark (Cambridge University) II. OUTLINES The Religious Divide: Piety in Nineteenth-Century Germany Lucian Holscher (University of Bochum) Religion, Religious Community and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Wolfgang Altgeld (University of Wrzburg) The Christian State and the Jewish Citizen in Nineteenth-Century Prussia Christopher Clark (Cambridge University) III. RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCE, NATIONAL CULTURE AND IDENTITY The Cult of Gustav Adolf: Protestant Identity and German Nationalism Kevin Cramer (Indiana University) The Process of Confessional Inculturation: Catholic Reading in the Long Nineteenth Century. Jeffrey T. Zalar, (Georgetown University) Anti-Jesuitism in Imperial Germany: The Jesuit as Androgyne Roisin Healy(National University of Ireland) IV. RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCE, LOCAL POLITICS, AND PLURALISM The Rise of the Religious Right and the Recasting of the Jewish Question : Baden in the 1840 Dagmar Herzog (Michigan State University) Pluralism in School Politics and the Limits of Tolerance: Jews and other Breslauer, 1865-1880 Till van Rhaden (University of Cologne) V. FROM CONFLICT TO COEXISTENCE The Catholics Missionary Crusade and the Protestant Revival, 1848-1872 Michael Gross, (East Carolina University) Building Religious Community: Worship Space and Experience in Strasbourg after the Franco-Prussian War Anthony J. Steinhoff (University of Tennessee The Development and Destruction of a Social Institution: How Jews, Catholics and Protestants Lived Together in Rural Baden, 1862-1914 Ulrich Baumann VI. AFTER WORD: Living Apart and Together in Germany Margaret Lavinia Anderson (University of California, Berkely)

Reviews

'This is an exciting collection of essays. It charts religious history as the history of relations between religious groups and breaks new ground in many ways. The book is full of new insights and replete with suggestions for new research.' Dr Thomas Mergel, University of Bielefeld 'One of the most compelling works in this field ... those with an interest in the religious dimension can do no better than this excellent book about Protestants, Catholics and Jews.' German History 'This collection of thirteen essays by younger scholars, ...is to be welcomed as an example of fruitful collaboration taking pace now between German and Anglo-American scholars.' English Historical Review

'This is an exciting collection of essays. It charts religious history as the history of relations between religious groups and breaks new ground in many ways. The book is full of new insights and replete with suggestions for new research.'Dr Thomas Mergel, University of Bielefeld'One of the most compelling works in this field ... those with an interest in the religious dimension can do no better than this excellent book about Protestants, Catholics and Jews.'German History 'This collection of thirteen essays by younger scholars, ...is to be welcomed as an example of fruitful collaboration taking pace now between German and Anglo-American scholars.'English Historical Review

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Dr. Helmut Walser Smith Associate Professor of History,Vanderbilt University

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