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 ; 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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (534 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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:

Preliminary Material / A.J. Steinhoff

Introduction / A.J. Steinhoff

Chapter One. From Grande Ville to Hauptstadt / A.J. Steinhoff

Chapter Two. Strasbourg metropolis / A.J. Steinhoff

Chapter Three. The Parish milieu / A.J. Steinhoff

Chapter Four. Contested visions: Church and state in the Reichsland / A.J. Steinhoff

Chapter Five. The worshipping community / A.J. Steinhoff

Chapter Six. Beyond the culture wars: Religious education in school and Parish / A.J. Steinhoff

Chapter Seven. Ministering to the city / A.J. Steinhoff

Chapter Eight. Urbanizing alsatian protestantism / A.J. Steinhoff

Conclusion / A.J. Steinhoff

Appendices / A.J. Steinhoff

Bibliography / A.J. Steinhoff

Index / A.J. Steinhoff.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis--University of Chicago.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-495) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-39790-7

9786612397905

90-474-3244-4

OCLC:

629920124

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004164055.I-516 DOI