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This open access Handbook provides state-of-the-art scholarship on
religious heritage in contemporary Europe, aimed at scholars,
practitioners and policy makers. It contains articles by both
scholars and heritage practitioners, and explores the key
challenges facing organizations, churches, and governments, as well
as academics studying religion and heritage. Divided into three
parts, the book brings together critical analysis and an
exploration of best practices, structured along major themes,
including tourism, the (post)secular, economics, multiple usages,
Jewish heritage, Muslim heritage, museums, contemporary art, and
architecture. The book explores how historic places of worship,
including churches, synagogues, and mosques in Europe, are among
the most heavily visited heritage sites worldwide, yet declining
church attendance means that many, historic churches are being
repurposed. It also examines the key role religious heritage plays
in political discourse, both in the interest of including and
excluding religious minorities. The ebook editions of this book are
available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on
bloomsburycollections.com.
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.
Red Secularism is the first substantive investigation into one of
the key sources of radicalism in modern German, the subculture that
arose at the intersection of secularism and socialism in the late
nineteenth-century. It explores the organizations that promoted
their humanistic-monistic worldview through popular science and
asks how this worldview shaped the biographies of ambitious
self-educated workers and early feminists. Todd H. Weir shows how
generations of secularist intellectuals staked out leading
positions in the Social Democratic Party, but often lost them due
to their penchant for dissent. Moving between local and national
developments, this book examines the crucial role of red secularism
in the political struggles over religion that rocked Germany and
fed into the National Socialist dictatorship of 1933. This title is
part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open
Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
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