Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany, 1800-1914

by Smith, Helmut Walser

• ISBN13: 9781859735602
• ISBN10: 1859735606
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

In the course of the nineteenth century, the boundaries that divided Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany were redrawn, challenged, rendered porous and built anew. This book addresses this redrawing. It considers the relations of three religious groups-Protestants, Catholics, and Jews-and asks how, by dint of their interaction, they affected one another.Previously, historians have written about these communities as if they lived in isolation. Yet these groups coexisted in common space, and interacted in complex ways. This is the first book that brings these separate stories together and lays the foundation for a new kind of religious history that foregrounds both cooperation and conflict across the religious divides. The authors analyze the influences that shaped religious coexistence and they place the valences of co-operation and conflict in deep social and cultural contexts. The result is a significantly altered understanding of the emergence of modern religious communities as well as new insights into the origins of the German tragedy, which involved the breakdown of religious coexistence.

Author Biography

Dr. Helmut Walser Smith is an Associate Professor of History, at Vanderbilt University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Notes on Contributors	xi
Part I Introduction
The Fate of Nathan	3	(30)
Helmut Walser Smith
Chris Clark
Part II Outlines
The Religious Divide: Piety in Nineteenth-Century Germany	33	(16)
Lucian Holscher
Religion, Denomination and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany	49	(18)
Wolfgang Altgeld
The ``Christian'' State and the ``Jewish Citizen'' in Nineteenth-Century Prussia	67	(30)
Chris Clark
Part III Religious Difference, National Culture and Identity
The Cult of Gustavus Adolphus: Protestant Identity and German Nationalism	97	(24)
Kevin Cramer
The Process of Confessional Inculturation: Catholic Reading in the ``Long Nineteenth Century''	121	(32)
Jeffrey T. Zalar
Anti-Jesuitism in Imperial Germany: The Jesuit as Androgyne	153	(32)
Roisin Healy
Part IV Religious Difference, Local Politics, and Pluralism
The Rise of the Religious Right and the Recasting of the ``Jewish Question'': Baden in the 1840s	185	(32)
Dagmar Herzog
Unity, Diversity, and Difference: Jews, Protestants, and Catholics in Breslau Schools During the Kulturkampf	217	(28)
Till van Rahden
Part V From Conflict to Coexistence
The Catholics' Missionary Crusade and the Protestant Revival in Nineteenth-Century Germany	245	(22)
Michael B. Gross
Building Religious Community: Worship Space and Experience in Strasburg after the Franco-Prussian War	267	(30)
Anthony J. Steinhoff
The Development and Destruction of a Social Institution: How Jews, Catholics and Protestants Lived Together in Rural Baden, 1862-1940	297	(20)
Ulrich Baumann
Part VI Afterword
Living Apart and Together in Germany	317	(16)
Margaret Lavinia Anderson
Index	333