The Gods of the City
Protestantism and Religious Culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914
Series: Studies in Central European Histories; 43;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 28 February 2008
- ISBN 9789004164055
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages518 pages
- Size 240x160 mm
- Weight 1067 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Drawing on extensive archival research, this study of Protestantism in Strasbourg (1870?1914) rethinks traditional understandings of the relationship between religion and European urban modernity. Not only did the city's faith communities exploit modern means to promote the faith, but they also sought to make the community itself more modern.
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Recent scholarship has criticized the assumption that European modernity was inherently secular. Yet, we remain poorly informed about religion's fate in the nineteenth-century big city, the very crucible of the modern condition. Drawing on extensive archival research and investigations into Protestant ecclesiastical organization, church-state relations, liturgy, pastoral care, associational life, and interconfessional relations, this study of Strasbourg following Germany's annexation of Alsace-Lorraine in 1871 shows how urbanization not only challenged the churches, but spurred them to develop new, forward-looking, indeed, urban understandings of religious community and piety. The work provides new insights into what it meant for Imperial Germany to identify itself as "Protestant" and it provocatively identifies the European big city as an agent for sacralization, and not just secularization.
"Steinhoff has offered a lengthy analysis that reveals in its richness the complexities inherent in modernity...This study should help illuminate the contemporary view of the relation of religion to the secular sphere in western societies that are still ambivalent when it comes to the role of religion in the political life of states."
Donald J. Dietrich, Church History, 80: 3, 2008, 700-702
"äusserst materialreich....ein wirklich gewichtiges Buch."
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Neue Politische Literatur, 53, 2008, 493-494
"Ce n?est pas seulement une grande th?se d?histoire de l?Alsace, c?est une belle th?se d?histoire culturelle européenne, fondée, ? la mode américaine, sur une étude de cas : l?étude de l?évolution du protestantisme strasbourgeois ? la fin du XIXe et au début du XXe si?cle. Elle se situe dans le sillage des études qui marquent le renouveau contemporain de l?histoire du fait religieux."
François Igersheim, Revue d'Alsace, 2010
"Steinhoff?s highly successful book remains a most thoughtful, clearly conceived, and well-organized study, one that deftly engages with and appropriately modifies the growing historiography on religion in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe.
Mark Edward Ruff, Journal of Modern History, Sept. 2010, vol. 82, no. 3, 748-750
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Translations and Citations
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. From Grande Ville to Hauptstadt
2. Strasbourg Metropolis
3. The Parish Milieu
4. Contested Visions: Church and State in the Reichsland
5. The Worshipping Community
6. Beyond the Culture Wars: Religious Education in School and Parish
7. Ministering to the City
8. Urbanizing Alsatian Protestantism
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
The Gods of the City: Protestantism and Religious Culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914
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