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The gods of the city : Protestantism and religious culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914 / by Anthony J. Steinhoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steinhoff, Anthony J.
- Series:
- Studies in Central European histories 1547-1217 ; v. 43.
- Studies in central European histories, 1547-1217 ; v. 43
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Protestantism--France--Strasbourg.
- Protestantism.
- Strasbourg (France)--Church history--19th century.
- Strasbourg (France).
- Strasbourg (France)--Church history--20th century.
- France--Strasbourg.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 516 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 From Grande Ville to Hauptstadt 23
- Chapter 2 Strasbourg Metropolis 83
- Chapter 3 The Parish Milieu 121
- Chapter 4 Contested Visions: Church and State in the Reichsland 171
- Chapter 5 The Worshipping Community 225
- Chapter 6 Beyond the Culture Wars: Religious Education in School and Parish 293
- Chapter 7 Ministering to the City 339
- Chapter 8 Urbanizing Alsatian Protestantism 389.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's thesis--University of Chicago.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [445]-495) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789004164055
- 9004164057
- OCLC:
- 181142184
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