Protestants, Catholics, and Jews in Germany, 1800-1914 / edited by Helmut Walser Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Helmut Walser, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germany--Religion--19th century.

Germany.

Religion.

Physical Description:

xiii, 336 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2001.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 The Fate of Nathan / Helmut Walser Smith, Chris Clark 3

Part II Outlines

2 The Religious Divide: Piety in Nineteenth-Century Germany / Lucian Holscher 33

3 Religion, Denomination and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany / Wolfgang Altgeld 49

4 The "Christian" State and the "Jewish Citizen" in Nineteenth-Century Prussia / Chris Clark 67

Part III Religious Difference, National Culture and Identity

5 The Cult of Gustavus Adolphus: Protestant Identity and German Nationalism / Kevin Cramer 97

6 The Process of Confessional Inculturation: Catholic Reading in the "Long Nineteenth Century" / Jeffrey T. Zalar 121

7 Anti-Jesuitism in Imperial Germany: The Jesuit as Androgyne / Roisin Healy 153

Part IV Religious Difference, Local Politics, and Pluralism

8 The Rise of the Religious Right and the Recasting of the "Jewish Question": Baden in the 1840s / Dagmar Herzog 185

9 Unity, Diversity, and Difference: Jews, Protestants, and Catholics in Breslau Schools During the Kulturkampf / Till van Rahden 217

Part V From Conflict to Coexistence

10 The Catholics' Missionary Crusade and the Protestant Revival in Nineteenth-Century Germany / Michael B. Gross 245

11 Building Religious Community: Worship Space and Experience in Strasburg after the Franco-Prussian War / Anthony J. Steinhoff 267

12 The Development and Destruction of a Social Institution: How Jews, Catholics and Protestants Lived Together in Rural Baden, 1862-1940 / Ulrich Baumann 297

13 Living Apart and Together in Germany / Margaret Lavinia Anderson 317.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1859735606

1859735657

OCLC:

47965091