Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany, 1800-1914

by Helmut Walser Smith (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781859735657
Publisher:	Berg Publishers
Publication date:	10/01/2001
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Dr. Helmut Walser Smith Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt Universit

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	ix
	Notes on Contributors	xi
Part I	Introduction
1	The Fate of Nathan	3
Part II	Outlines
2	The Religious Divide: Piety in Nineteenth-Century Germany	33
3	Religion, Denomination and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany	49
4	The "Christian" State and the "Jewish Citizen" in Nineteenth-Century Prussia	67
Part III	Religious Difference, National Culture and Identity
5	The Cult of Gustavus Adolphus: Protestant Identity and German Nationalism	97
6	The Process of Confessional Inculturation: Catholic Reading in the "Long Nineteenth Century"	121
7	Anti-Jesuitism in Imperial Germany: The Jesuit as Androgyne	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	185
9	Unity, Diversity, and Difference: Jews, Protestants, and Catholics in Breslau Schools During the Kulturkampf	217
Part V	From Conflict to Coexistence
10	The Catholics' Missionary Crusade and the Protestant Revival in Nineteenth-Century Germany	245
11	Building Religious Community: Worship Space and Experience in Strasburg after the Franco-Prussian War	267
12	The Development and Destruction of a Social Institution: How Jews, Catholics and Protestants Lived Together in Rural Baden, 1862-1940	297
Part VI	Afterword
13	Living Apart and Together in Germany	317
	Index	333

Editorial Reviews

"This is an exciting collection of essays. It charts religious history as the history of relations between religious groups and breaks new ground in many ways. The book is full of new insights and replete with suggestions for new research." --Dr. Thomas Mergel, University of Bielefeld

"One of the most compelling works in this field ... those with an interest in the religious dimension can do no better than this excellent book about Protestants, Catholics and Jews." --German History

"This collection of thirteen essays by younger scholars, ...is to be welcomed as an example of fruitful collaboration taking pace now between German and Anglo-American scholars." --English Historical Review

From the Publisher

This collection of thirteen essays by younger scholars, ...is to be welcomed as an example of fruitful collaboration taking pace now between German and Anglo-American scholars.

English Historical Review

One of the most compelling works in this field ... those with an interest in the religious dimension can do no better than this excellent book about Protestants, Catholics and Jews.

German History

This is an exciting collection of essays. It charts religious history as the history of relations between religious groups and breaks new ground in many ways. The book is full of new insights and replete with suggestions for new research.

University of Bielefeld Dr. Thomas Mergel