The Gods of the City

Protestantism and Religious Culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16405-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 518 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 998 g

Reihe: Studies in Central European Histories

Recent scholarship has criticized the assumption that European modernity was inherently secular. Yet, we remain poorly informed about religion's fate in the nineteenth-century big city, the very crucible of the modern condition. Drawing on extensive archival research and investigations into Protestant ecclesiastical organization, church-state relations, liturgy, pastoral care, associational life, and interconfessional relations, this study of Strasbourg following Germany's annexation of Alsace-Lorraine in 1871 shows how urbanization not only challenged the churches, but spurred them to develop new, forward-looking, indeed, urban understandings of religious community and piety. The work provides new insights into what it meant for Imperial Germany to identify itself as "Protestant" and it provocatively identifies the European big city as an agent for sacralization, and not just secularization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steinhoff, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Translations and Citations
Abbreviations

Introduction
1. From Grande Ville to Hauptstadt
2. Strasbourg Metropolis
3. The Parish Milieu
4. Contested Visions: Church and State in the Reichsland
5. The Worshipping Community
6. Beyond the Culture Wars: Religious Education in School and Parish
7. Ministering to the City
8. Urbanizing Alsatian Protestantism
Conclusion

Appendices
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony J. Steinhoff, Ph.D. in History, University of Chicago (1996), is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He has published widely on European religious history, including articles in Geschichte und Gesellschaft and the Journal of Urban History.