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Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Paperback)
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Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Focusing on an area roughly equivalent to the contemporary state of
North Rhine-Westphalia, this description of popular religious life
between 1830 and 1880 revises established postitions of German
historiography. It depicts thee increasing laicization of the first
half of the nineteenth century, with its mediocre church attendance
and secularized morality, and goes on to show how the two decdes
after 1850 reversed the trend toward secularization. During the
latter period, renewal of the people's loyalty to the church
encouraged a developing political Catholicism. The author
demonstrates that urbanization and industrialization may well have
strengthened popular piety, rather than weakening it. He considers
a variety of political implications of popular religious life, from
the revolution of 1848/49 to the Kulturkampf of the 1870s, and see
political Catholicism in Germany as asrising not exclusively from
church-state confrontations but from the interaction of new
religious practices with a changing socioeconomic environment and a
counter-revolutionary ideology. Jonathan Sperber is Assistant
Professor of History at the University of Missouri--Columbia.
Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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