Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire

Transnational Approaches
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-151-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 514 g

Reihe: New German historical perspectives

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Habermas, Rebekka

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Negotiating the Religious and the Secular in Modern German History

Rebekka Habermas

PART I: RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR: SCIENTIFIC DEBATES

Chapter 1. A Secular Age? The ‘Modern World’ and the Beginnings of the Sociology of Religion

Wolfgang Knöbl

Chapter 2. The Silence on the Land: Ancient Israel versus Modern Palestine in Scientific Theology

Paul Michael Kurtz

PART II: RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR: PUBLIC DEBATES

Chapter 3. What Means to Be ‘Secular’ in the German Kaiserreich? An Intervention

Lucian Hölscher

Chapter 4. Secularism in the Long Nineteenth Century between the Global and the Local

Rebekka Habermas

PART III: RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR: NEGOTIATING BOUNDARIES

Chapter 5. Retrieving Tradition? The Secular-Religious Ambiguity in Nineteenth Century German-Jewish Anarchism

Carolin Kosuch

Chapter 6. Catholic Women as Global Actors of the Religious and the Secular

Relinde Meiwes

Chapter 7. Negotiating the Fundamentals? German Missions and the Experience of the Contact Zone, 1850–1918

Richard Hölzl and Karolin Wetjen

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Habermas, Rebekka
Rebekka Habermas is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Göttingen. She has also been a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at Oxford University and Theodor Heuss Professor at The New School in New York. Her publications include Frauen und Männer des Bürgertums: Eine Familiengeschichte (2000), Thieves in Court: The Making of the German Legal System in the Nineteenth Century (2016), and Skandal in Togo: Ein Kapitel deutscher Kolonialherrschaft (2016).

Rebekka Habermas is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Göttingen. She has also been a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at Oxford University and Theodor Heuss Professor at The New School in New York. Her publications include Frauen und Männer des Bürgertums: Eine Familiengeschichte (2000), Thieves in Court: The Making of the German Legal System in the Nineteenth Century (2016), and Skandal in Togo: Ein Kapitel deutscher Kolonialherrschaft (2016).