In this pathbreaking work, Dagmar Herzog situates the birth of
German liberalism in the religious conflicts of the nineteenth
century. During the years leading up to the revolutions of 1848,
liberal and conservative Germans engaged in a contest over the
terms of the Enlightenment legacy and the meaning of
Christianity--a contest that grew most intense in the Grand Duchy
of Baden, where liberalism first became an influential political
movement. Bringing insights drawn from Jewish and women's studies
into German history, Herzog demonstrates how profoundly
Christianity's problematic relationships to Judaism and to
sexuality shaped liberal, conservative, and radical thought in the
pre-revolutionary years. In particular, she reveals how often
conflicts over the private sphere and the "politics of the
personal" determined larger political matters.Herzog documents the
unexpected rise of a politically sophisticated religious right led
by conservative Catholics, and explores liberals' ensuing eagerness
to advance a humanist version of Christianity. Yet she also
examines the limitations at the heart of the liberal project, as
well as the difficulties encountered by philo-Semitic and feminist
radicals as they strove to reconceptualize both classical
liberalism and Christianity in order to make room for the claims of
Jews and women. The book challenges fundamental assumptions about
processes of secularization and religious renewal and about
Jewish-Christian relations in German history.
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