Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Author: Todd H. Weir
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2014-04-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107041562

This book explores the culture, politics, and ideas of the nineteenth-century German secularist movements of Free Religion, Freethought, Ethical Culture, and Monism. In it, Todd H. Weir argues that although secularists challenged church establishment and conservative orthodoxy, they were subjected to the forces of religious competition.

Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire

Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire
Author: Rebekka Habermas
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2019-03-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789201527

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.

The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century

The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Owen Chadwick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1990-09-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521398299

Owen Chadwick's acclaimed lectures on the secularisation of the European mind trace the declining hold of the Church and its doctrines on European society in the nineteenth century.

The Modernity of Others

The Modernity of Others
Author: Ari Joskowicz
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2013-11-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0804788405

The most prominent story of nineteenth-century German and French Jewry has focused on Jewish adoption of liberal middle-class values. The Modernity of Others points to an equally powerful but largely unexplored aspect of modern Jewish history: the extent to which German and French Jews sought to become modern by criticizing the anti-modern positions of the Catholic Church. Drawing attention to the pervasiveness of anti-Catholic anticlericalism among Jewish thinkers and activists from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, the book turns the master narrative of Western and Central European Jewish history on its head. From the moment in which Jews began to enter the fray of modern European politics, they found that Catholicism served as a convenient foil that helped them define what it meant to be a good citizen, to practice a respectable religion, and to have a healthy family life. Throughout the long nineteenth century, myriad Jewish intellectuals, politicians, and activists employed anti-Catholic tropes wherever questions of political and national belonging were at stake: in theoretical treatises, parliamentary speeches, newspaper debates, the founding moments of the Reform movement, and campaigns against antisemitism.

Religion and Secularity

Religion and Secularity
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013-05-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004251332

Religion and Secularity traces the history of the conceptual binary of religion and secularity in Europe and the repercussions it had in other regions and cultures of the Eurasian continent during the age of imperialism and beyond. Twelve authors from a wide range of disciplines, deal in their contributions with the trajectory, the concepts of „religion“ and „secularity/secularization“ took, as well as with the corresponding re-configurations of the religious field in a variety of cultures in Europe, the Near and Middle East, South Asia and East Asia. Taken together, these in-depth studies provide a broad comparative perspective on a penomenon that has been crucial for the development of globalized modernity and its regional interpretations.

Secularism in Question

Secularism in Question
Author: Ethan B. Katz
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2015-07-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0812247272

Secularism in Question examines how twentieth-century revivals of religion prompt a reconsideration of many issues concerning Jews and Judaism in the modern era. Scholars of Jewish history, religion, philosophy, and literature illustrate how the categories of "religious" and "secular" have frequently proven far more permeable than fixed.

A Secular Age

A Secular Age
Author: Charles Taylor
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 889
Release: 2018-09-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674986911

The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

Sex and Secularism

Sex and Secularism
Author: Joan Wallach Scott
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691197229

"Drawing on a wealth of scholarship by second-wave feminists and historians of religion, race, and colonialism, Scott shows that the gender equality invoked today as a fundamental and enduring principle was not originally associated with the term "secularism" when it first entered the lexicon in the nineteenth century. In fact, the inequality of the sexes was fundamental to the articulation of the separation of church and state that inaugurated Western modernity. Scott points out that Western nation-states imposed a new order of women's subordination, assigning them to a feminized familial sphere meant to complement the rational masculine realms of politics and economics. It was not until the question of Islam arose in the late twentieth century that gender equality became a primary feature of the discourse of secularism"-- Publisher's description

Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion

Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
Author: Joshua King
Publisher:
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2022-04-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780814255292

Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.