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Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany - The Rise of the Fourth Confession (Paperback)
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Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany - The Rise of the Fourth Confession (Paperback)
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Negotiating the boundaries of the secular and of the religious is a
core aspect of modern experience. In mid-nineteenth-century
Germany, secularism emerged to oppose church establishment,
conservative orthodoxy, and national division between Catholics,
Protestants, and Jews. Yet, as historian Todd H. Weir argues in
this provocative book, early secularism was not the opposite of
religion. It developed in the rationalist dissent of Free Religion
and, even as secularism took more atheistic forms in Freethought
and Monism, it was subject to the forces of the confessional system
it sought to dismantle. Similar to its religious competitors, it
elaborated a clear worldview, sustained social milieus, and was
integrated into the political system. Secularism was, in many ways,
Germany's fourth confession. While challenging assumptions about
the causes and course of the Kulturkampf and modern antisemitism,
this study casts new light on the history of popular science,
radical politics, and social reform.
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