Red Secularism
Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 10 April 2025
- ISBN 9781107583436
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages382 pages
- Size 229x152x20 mm
- Weight 551 g
- Language English 644
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Short description:
Illuminates the culture and worldview of socialist secularism and its impact on German history between the Kaiserreich and the Third Reich.
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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.
'In a work of remarkable ambition and scope, Weir explores the complex relationship between socialism and secularism at a time when many workers retained ties to organized religion. Exposing the rifts within the German socialist movement over whether to pursue a radical secularist agenda, Weir's meticulous scholarship will be indispensable for all future scholars probing this relationship.' Mark Edward Ruff, author of The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980
Table of Contents:
1. Introducing socialism and secularism as two cultures; 2. Secularist culture in a working-class city: Berlin around 1890; 3. Prometheans: secularist intellectuals on the socialist stage; 4. The sociology and psychology of secularist intellectuals: dancing near the abyss; 5. Workers and worldview; 6. The politics of secularism 1905-1914; 7. Secularists in war and revolution 1914-1922; 8. Monism in the Weimar workers' culture movement; 9. Culture war at the end of the Weimar republic; Epilogue.
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