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Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770-1914 (Hardcover)
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Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770-1914 (Hardcover)
Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute
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Popular conceptions of Catholic censorship, symbolized above all by
the Index of Forbidden Books, figure prominently in secular
definitions of freedom. To be intellectually free is to enjoy
access to knowledge unimpeded by any religious authority. But how
would the history of freedom change if these conceptions were
false? In this panoramic study of Catholic book culture in Germany
from 1770-1914, Jeffrey T. Zalar exposes the myth of faith-based
intellectual repression. Catholic readers disobeyed the book rules
of their church in a vast apostasy that raised personal desire and
conscience over communal responsibility and doctrine. This
disobedience sparked a dramatic contest between lay readers and
their priests over proper book behavior that played out in homes,
schools, libraries, parish meeting halls, even church
confessionals. The clergy lost this contest in a fundamental
reordering of cultural power that helped usher in contemporary
Catholicism.
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